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01Prowler Prowler Junkie Posts: 5068 |
posted 08-12-2004 07:07 PM
STUART, Fla. -- A dramatic rescue ended tragically in Stuart, Florida, a rescue so difficult firefighters say they have never seen anything like it. It happened late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning at the home of a 480-pound woman who was having trouble breathing. Rescuers went in not knowing how difficult it would be to get her out. 40-year-old Gail Grinds was literally stuck to her couch and had to be removed surgically at the hospital. Authorities estimate she had been on the couch anywhere from two to five years. Martin County Fire amd Rescue crews faced what seemed to be an impossible mission. Everyone going inside had to wear protective gear. The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air. They tried to cut out the front door, but at four-and-a-half feet wide, it wouldn't work. They had to cut plywood since a normal stretcher wouldn't do. An ambulance was too small, so they brought in a trailer to get her out. While rescue crews came up with a back-door rescue plan, detectives secured what had become a crime scene, questioning family members about how it got so bad. Using planks, they loaded the woman on to the trailer, still attached to the couch. Removing her would be too painful, since her body is grafted to the fabric. After years of staying put, her skin has literally become one with the sofa and it must be surgically removed. Detectives are investigating whether they have a case of neglect, or if it is simply a very sad story. Grinds was taken to the Martin Memorial hospital where doctors removed her from the couch, but she died in spite of all the attempts to save her life. |
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pumpkin Prowler Junkie Posts: 7907 |
posted 08-12-2004 07:30 PM
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butchcee Prowler Junkie Posts: 7476 |
posted 08-12-2004 08:08 PM
We had a local boy that weighed in at 900 lbs. Here's his story. http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/dimtext/hudson.html |
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SirReal Prowler Junkie Posts: 3332 |
posted 08-12-2004 08:09 PM
Wow I kept hoping there was gonna be a punchline. Too sad. |
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CTProwler Prowler Junkie Posts: 3915 |
posted 08-12-2004 09:45 PM
Didn't want to read it. Who would give the woman food for 6 years? How did she go to the bathroom? Sad isn't the word for it! ------------------ |
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01Prowler Prowler Junkie Posts: 5068 |
posted 08-12-2004 09:53 PM
That's what I can't understand Chuck.... It just makes no sense. How can someone let someone go that far???? I guess this world is full of all kinds of people. I know that reading that story reminded me that there really are some heartless, or just plain dumb people in this world. I hope they do get the person that supposedly "cared" for that woman. |
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pumpkin Prowler Junkie Posts: 7907 |
posted 08-13-2004 01:32 AM
quote: I guess her couch was named depends.Your right Chuck, about who fed her. |
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BeWare Prowler Junkie Posts: 18511 |
posted 08-13-2004 07:49 AM
I heard this on the radio yesterday. Both very sad and disgusting. |
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Blue Bullet Prowler Junkie Posts: 156 |
posted 08-13-2004 07:59 AM
The stories would have been better if they had to cut them out of a Prowler they had been confined to for two or so years! |
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MissKitty unregistered Posts: 156 |
posted 08-13-2004 08:33 AM
This is just disgusting. Did she not have a phone so she could call for help ?! Who took "care" of her ? If the Rescue teams had to go on there with masks on because of the smell, then how could anybody go in there and feed her - I mean she didn't get up to use the bathroom so that stench had to be horrible. |
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Silver Cat 01 Prowler Junkie Posts: 95 |
posted 08-13-2004 11:39 AM
Three words: Jabba the Hutt
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Dustis unregistered Posts: 95 |
posted 08-13-2004 11:51 AM
 ...that's awesome man - I just stopped laughing......exactly like Jabba the Hutt - he barely moved either ! |
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mayordoug Prowler Junkie Posts: 71 |
posted 08-14-2004 12:42 AM
The tragedy is that this is not uncommon. I have been a paramedic for 25 years, and the past few years have seen an extraordinary number of super-heavyweight individuals. Our standard ambulance cots are rated at 500 pound capacity and this is not enough. Manufacturers for our industry are making models that will support 1000 lbs. There are ambulances being manufactured in sized to handle these patients as well, with ramps and winches to wheel the patient into the ambulance rather than lifting them. It should be a crime that family members keep feeding these folks. I have trouble understanding how they can accept that, through their own negligence, they are so big they cannot even wipe their own butt. It is not McDonalds fault, it is theirs and those that help them get to that size. |
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Tytanium-K Prowler Junkie Posts: 3017 |
posted 08-14-2004 07:14 AM
all kidding aside--and it is just human nature to poke fun at FAT people (no offense to anyone)--my own mom has been obese as long as memory serves and it has always disgusted me! Always! I was ashamed to be seen with her, publicly. I was ashamed for my young friends to see her & know that she was my mom! The very fact that she was (is) fat kept me from becoming so! Now, I ain't skinny and have weighed as much as 222 and felt disgusted with myself at that weight. But, IMHO, it ALL boils down to pushing back from the table. Less food in; less weight accumulated! Sure it's hard to do--hell, I love to eat as much as the next person...but, there is NO reason that MAKES one overeat; or overdrink alcohol; or smoke, ad infinitum! I've heard people's excuses my whole life--and they're all BS. Cuz my wife left me; or cuz my husband left me; or cuz I didn't get the job; or cuz my kid is on drugs; or cuz I failed an exam; cuz, cuz, cuz. And so, absolutely NO EXCUSE for the woman in article above...or any person...packing on pound-after-pound-after-pound year-after-year! NONE. Every day is a personal choice! Every hour! Every minute! How can extremely FAT people feel good about themselves? It ain't funny! It IS sad! I'm almost 60, I'm 6' 2" tall, I weigh 190, and every single day I watch my intake! If I gain 2 or 3 lbs, I adjust the next several meals to compensate; to lose it. So, does being disgusted with people who are blatently overweight--and making no conscious effort to control it--make me a butthole? Does anyone here think FAT is FUNNY? I believe it's just as lethal as alcohol and nicotine and anyone led astray by such is unwise! Oh! Incidentally, my dad was an abusive alcoholic (smoked also) who died from it at the age of 52! So, I guess you know how I feel about alcohol use now too! Sure he slapped me around somewhat when he was drunk! Anyone here think that's funny? Try being 11 or 12 and coming home to a drunk dad when mom's still at work! Come to think of it, maybe that's why she ate so much! Bygones... ------------------ |
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CJ Prowler Junkie Posts: 18860 |
posted 08-14-2004 07:59 AM
Being overweight is not a healthy thing. People should not judge overweight people by how they look. It does not make them a bad person. I've struggled with weight most of my adult life.....as a lot of people do. There are a lot factors that can be involved.....emotional issues, medical issues, etc. In a way, it is a form of self-abuse. Obesity is as much an addiction as alcohol and smoking. Like alcohol and smoking, it can be treated... but the person has to want to change it, just like any other addiction. We all make personal choices every day and obesity is no different. As a society, we have become complacent. We have too much available to us. We do not learn to make proper choices. Look at the number of overweight kids today. Parents should be exercising more control over their children's diets.......but if they don't do that for themselves, their children won't learn that either. A very sad story indeed. |
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DR PROWLER Prowler Junkie Posts: 4079 |
posted 08-14-2004 08:35 AM
And it gets harder to control the weight the older you get! I've heard stories like this before and it's truly sad for the people involved,I feel for them! ------------------ |
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dbickel Prowler Junkie Posts: 57 |
posted 08-14-2004 08:48 PM
quote: So, I guess this person was... what... 400 years old?
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TooHipCat Prowler Junkie Posts: 4173 |
posted 08-14-2004 08:55 PM
CJ...you said it all!!!  Brian  |
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spoons Prowler Junkie Posts: 2083 |
posted 08-17-2004 11:40 AM
Stuart is about 20 miles north of wear I live. I could not believe this story when I heard it. She sat in her own crap for years. Police want to charge her family and husband. I think they should. |
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