600-Pound Woman Dies After Being Surgically Removed From Couch!

[Riesstiu IV]

North America (even Mexico!) seems to have awful obesity rates, and we seriously need to do something about this. I've managed to stay healthy by eating out only a few times a year. I maybe go to McDonalds twice a year and make most of my meals at home. I avoid high calorie foods like Big Macs or Whoppers.

What’s really worrisome is that you can find unhealthy food and drink where you least expect it. Take Starbucks for instance, the top Star Bucks coffee has around 700-something calories. 700 just for one coffee?! That's just wrong and Star Bucks should realize that. Regular black coffee has like 6 calories.

 

[Riesstiu IV]

I never knew human skin could do that.

If she a numerous bed sores that bursted over the years they could have easily healed with the couch fibers thus connecting her with the object. Constant skin contact will do that but it's rare to see because very few people stay in one spot long enough for it to happen.

 

[The Last Conformist]

What’s really worrisome is that you can find unhealthy food and drink where you least expect it. Take Starbucks for instance, the top Star Bucks coffee has around 700-something calories. 700 just for one coffee?! That's just wrong and Star Bucks should realize that. Regular black coffee has like 6 calories.

You're telling me there's 700 kcal in a coffee? That's the equivalent of 175g of pure sugar ...

 

[Riesstiu IV]

http://www.starbucks.com/retail/nutrition_beverages.asp

Yes! Personally I don't drink coffee but a friend pointed this out to me. Try different combos and see what you get. Starbucks is not not coffee. Coffee is a drink to help you wake up not put on weight.

 

[The Last Conformist]

The highest I found was 610 kcal, but that's quite bad enough ...

 

[Little Raven]

I never knew human skin could do that.

Yup. Back in college I had a fist fight with a cinderblock wall, (I lost) and took all the skin off the back of my hands. In an attempt to up the ante on my previous stupidity, I wrapped my hands in gauze and left it on for a few days. Of course, what happened is that the skin healed around the fibers in the gauze, so when I went to remove it, I had to tear off much of the healing skin. Ouch.

And that was just a few days. I shudder to think what years of healing bed sores could produce.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Somehow, LR, you weren't the poster on this board I would have suspected of that kind of experience.

 

[Gogf]

This is really sad . That mus thave been a terrible way to die...

 

[test_specimen]

What’s really worrisome is that you can find unhealthy food and drink where you least expect it. Take Starbucks for instance, the top Star Bucks coffee has around 700-something calories. 700 just for one coffee?! That's just wrong and Star Bucks should realize that. Regular black coffee has like 6 calories.

.... everything except the "coffee of the day/week" at Starbucks isn't exactly coffee anymore. There is so much additional stuff in it, that you can't call it "coffee" and you usually don't drink it to wake up, but as a kind of meal.

It is no surprise, that cream or icecream have a lot of calories. But both are not the usual ingredients of a coffee.

 

[Riesstiu IV]

The highest I found was 610 kcal, but that's quite bad enough ...

Venti Caramel Macchiato with Breve (I have no idea what the name means):

Size: 20 fl. oz.

Calories 710
Fat Calories 490
Total Fat (g) 55
Saturated Fat (g) 34
Cholesterol (mg) 175
Sodium (mg) 210
Total Carbohydrates (g) 41
Fiber (g) 0
Sugars (g) 18
Protein (g) 15
Vitamin A 4%
Vitamin C 8%
Calcium 50%
Iron 0

OMG! This drink should be banned!

 

[Little Raven]

Somehow, LR, you weren't the poster on this board I would have suspected of that kind of experience.

What? You've never had a cinderblock wall look at you funny?

Maybe they're just more polite in Europe.

 

[Riesstiu IV]

.... everything except the "coffee of the day/week" at Starbucks isn't exactly coffee anymore.

I've never been to Starbucks but didn't it just start out as simple coffee with morning pastries? Why do they feel the need to create these insane drinks?

 

[The Last Conformist]

What? You've never had a cinderblock wall look at you funny?

I'm not positive what a cinderblock wall is, but when I feel the need to exercise violence against a wall, I usually kick it. There was a time when I could reliably place a kick at face-sized segment of wall at 1.80m height ... sigh.

 

[insurgent]

How can someone weighting 500 Kg is able to walk ? 0_o

I don't think he was. As I recall from the story, he dreamt of taking a walk in the park with his wife.

Anyway, how very very sad that people do that to themselves.

 

[insurgent]

Also, this story seems just a tad too wild. Is it possible to get some kind of confirmation?

 

[Riesstiu IV]

At first I thought so too but I saw a news segment where they interviewed the family. They were African American and the husband was actually quite skinny himself. They basically fed her and covered her with blankets and didn't do anything esle.

Off topic: Is it me or does the article seem poorly written?

 

[MarineCorps]

Hmm, the story differs slightly from whats on the link.

STUART, Fla. -- A 480-pound Martin County woman has died after emergency workers tried to remove her from the couch where she had remained for about six years.

Gayle Laverne Grinds, 40, died Wednesday, after a failed six-hour effort to dislodge her from the couch in her home. Workers say the home was filthy, and Grinds was too large to get up from the couch to even use the bathroom.

Everyone going inside the home had to wear protective gear. The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.


A preliminary autopsy on the the four-foot, ten-inch woman lists the cause of death as "morbid obesity." But officials want to know more about the circumstances inside the home.

Investigators say Grinds lived with a man named Herman Thomas, who says he tried to take care of her the best he could. He has told them he tried repeatedly to get her up, but simply couldn't. No charges have been filed, but officials are looking into negligence issues.

Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer behind a pickup truck. Removing her from the couch would be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric. After years of staying put, her skin had literally become one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.

She died at Martin Memorial Hospital South, still attached to the couch.

 

[Riesstiu IV]

480... 600. What's the difference? It's still fat as hell!

Edit: Perhaps she was 600 with the couch and 480 by herself?

 

[betazed]

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I'm not positive what a cinderblock wall is, but when I feel the need to exercise violence against a wall, I usually kick it. There was a time when I could reliably place a kick at face-sized segment of wall at 1.80m height ... sigh.

reminds me when I was a teen and my usual sparring opponent was a fully grown coconut tree. It had been on the receiving end of many a mao-shi oshiro giri.

Unfortunately, the tree always won.

Seriously, I think all of us has fought with non-animate objects sometime or other.

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[insurgent]

I haven't.

But then again, I was always a very dull kid...