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600-Pound Woman Dies After Being Surgically Removed From Couch
taken from http://www.wftv.com/news/3643877/detail.html :
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| 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 600-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. |
i'll never understand how people can let themselves get that bad!
how can this be like considered neglect obviously someone was feeding her or else she wouldnt be that fat
i can't wait til I get fat. Its gonna rule.
Gosh that is big! 
I think some of them eat like pigs indeed but lets not forget about those who have metabolism problems... some unlucky people out there gain weight just by eating regularly normal food like all of us.. like in the opposite some others with faster metabolism stay thin regardless of what they ingurgitate..
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| Originally posted by Boomer187 i can't wait til I get fat. Its gonna rule. |
What the fuck is this shit?
Jesus.
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE WORLD? MY GOD.
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| Originally posted by N|te-L|fe like in the opposite some others with faster metabolism stay thin regardless of what they ingurgitate.. |
600 pounds? Jesus!
I tell my girlfriend I'll leave her if she tops 125. I tell her I'm just joking around, but she seems to take me seriously.
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| Originally posted by Nautilus 600 pounds? Jesus! I tell my girlfriend I'll leave her if she tops 125. I tell her I'm just joking around, but she seems to take me seriously. |
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| Originally posted by Nautilus 600 pounds? Jesus! I tell my girlfriend I'll leave her if she tops 125. I tell her I'm just joking around, but she seems to take me seriously. |
If she couldn't get up to go to the bathroom, then where did her mass amounts of poo go ?! 
Gluttony at its finest....oh well, waste of space anyway.
genetics certainly play a part, but I bet she was clinicly depressed... being depressed led to over-eating which led to being more fat which led to being more depressed
anyway if Jared can help himself, this person could have too
I'm having a hard time feeling sorry...
-Clovis
One day I will need to be surgically removed from my computer chair
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| Originally posted by igottaknow One day I will need to be surgically removed from my computer chair |
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| 480-pound woman dies after six years on couch By Pat Moore Thursday, August 12, 2004 She lived in filth, so large she couldn't move from her sofa, even to use the bathroom. Early Wednesday, still fused to the couch, Gayle Laverne Grinds died following a six-hour effort by rescue workers who struggled to lift the 480-pound woman and get her to a Martin County hospital. Unable to separate the skin of the 39-year-old woman from her sofa, 12 Martin County Fire-Rescue workers slid both onto a trailer and hauled her behind a pickup to Martin Memorial Hospital South. She died a short time later. Sheriff's investigators questioned how Grinds lived in such conditions without more help from family or authorities. "We're not treating her death as suspicious at this point, but we do have an investigation started because the circumstances surrounding her death are so unusual," Martin Sheriff's Sgt. Jenell Atlas said. The Treasure Coast medical examiner performed an autopsy of the 4-foot-10 woman and listed her cause of death as "morbid obesity," officials said. Results of toxicology tests will take several weeks. "I tried to take care of her the best I could," said 54-year-old Herman Thomas, who lived with Grinds in the duplex apartment in Golden Gate, south of Stuart. "I tried to get her to get up, but it wouldn't do no good." He said the woman that he called his wife hadn't been off the couch for six years. No record of their marriage could be found. "I wish I could have pulled her off the couch, but she wouldn't let me," he said, covering his face and sobbing. Inside the home, the floor and walls were matted with feces, and trash was strewn across the floors, some which were bare concrete. Furniture was toppled, and pictures were knocked off walls. Atlas said sheriff's detectives will look for potential "negligence issues" related to her care and death. "We want to know what happened to her, how she ended up this way, and is she supposed to have been receiving any care," she said. Rescue workers were called to the home at 8:44 p.m. Tuesday by Grinds' brother and his girlfriend, who reported the woman had trouble breathing and "emphysema problems." The crew initially tried to remove her from the couch, but the pain was too excruciating. Workers wore protective clothing and installed large air handling hoses to ventilate the horrendous odor emitting from the home while trying to figure out how to get the woman and her couch to the hospital. The street in front of the row of duplex apartments turned into a makeshift construction site as rescue crews used hammers and chain saws to build a large wooden stretcher with handles cut around the perimeter so firefighters could lift the woman and the couch, Martin County Fire-Rescue District Chief Jim Loffredo said. After several failed attempts, including building one plywood plank that was too small to hold her, workers removed sliding glass patio doors at the back of the home, leaving a 6-foot opening large enough to get her out. They slid the couch with her on it onto the larger wooden plank supported by 2-by-4 boards, which were slid onto a utility trailer. "We couldn't get her in the ambulance," Loffredo said. The trailer was hooked to the back of a pickup, leaving the scene sometime after 2 a.m., witnesses said. Grinds died at 3:12 a.m., still attached to the couch, officials said. Neighbors who watched the lengthy rescue effort said they had never seen Grinds out of the home. Jerry Thomas, who lives across the street for six years, said he has seen young girls at the home on occasion but never knew Grinds was inside. "All we knew was the old man lived there," Thomas said. "I had no idea a woman ever lived in that house. Apparently she'd been on that couch a long time." Unidentified relatives expressed anger at the scene. "Family members are upset.... It's a difficult position," Martin County Fire-Rescue specialist Chris Wisniewski said. Clifford Grinds, who is believed to be Gayle Grinds' brother, refused comment and slammed a door when contacted by a reporter at his Hobe Sound home Wednesday afternoon. Court records show Gayle Grinds cared for a young niece and nephew after the death of her sister in 1992. Those children are now 19 and 15, but their whereabouts were unclear Wednesday. "We are used to going to people's houses when things are at their worst... and that's fine, we're trained for it," Atlas said. "But there is no warning for something like this." Atlas said a community policing deputy who worked the neighborhood a few years ago knew of Grinds but never had any dealings with her, and no deputy had ever been called inside the home. In June 2003, 911 dispatchers received a call from the home for medical assistance, but Martin County Fire Chief Tom Billington said he could not reveal the nature of that call, citing federal medical privacy laws and the ongoing investigation. The Department of Children and Families can intervene to help adults who are unable to care for themselves, but DCF officials said Wednesday they did not know about Grinds. Christine Demetriades, agency spokeswoman for the Treasure Coast, said DCF has no record of calls to the abuse hot line or reports before she died. |
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| Originally posted by Fancy Pants If she couldn't get up to go to the bathroom, then where did her mass amounts of poo go ?! |
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| Originally posted by Slylee and your hand will need to be surgically removed from your penis as well right? |
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| Originally posted by Nautilus 600 pounds? Jesus! I tell my girlfriend I'll leave her if she tops 125. I tell her I'm just joking around, but she seems to take me seriously. |
that is absolutely hysterical...no really, what a great joke...telling your girlfriend if she reaches a certain weight, you'll leave her.
you should be so lucky to even have a girlfriend
6 years??? Darwin needs to pick up the pace.
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| Originally posted by occrider 6 years??? Darwin needs to pick up the pace. |
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