Sally Show
March 19, 2008 by Terry
Filed under Terry's Rambles
While watching the Sally Jesse Rapheal has a rerun of a show on television the morning of January 10, 2001. I had not seen this show previously. On this show she had three women with one of them being televised. One young lady weight 850 pounds was confined to a bed in a nursing home which she had not been out of except for bathroom breaks in 6 months. She had a portapotty next to her bed and she required assistance to get up and use it. This lady spoke of how it required a dozen firemen to transport and while they had been very nice how humiliating it was.
A second lady that was at the show weight about 450 pounds. She wanted a gastric bypass but the insurance company would not cover it. She spoke of how difficult it was for her to go out in public as people stared at her and laughed. Her knees had given out on her and she need surgery on them but that could not be performed until she got under 200 pounds.
A third lady had weighed over 850 pound and had so far lost about 500 pounds. She spoke of how she had to be weighed at a truck scale, as she started to loose weight she was able to go to the hospital where they weighed her on the scale they used to weigh people in wheel chairs in. She spoke of her thrill the day she went to the doctor and they were able to weigh her on the regular scale at the doctors. This lady was at the show to offer her encouragement to the other ladies not only that day but on an ongoing basis.
A follow up was shown and the first lady had lost over 450 pounds and was now home. The second lady was doing better but still waiting for surgery. The third lady had been keeping in touch.
1/10/2001
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