There are CTs for bariatric patients but few hospitals have bothered to buy and install them yet. Normal ones start to crap out in the upper 300s and these will go to the upper 600s with no problem.During my time in the ER I'm sure I encountered several, but there's just one specific deathfat I remember. We needed to get a CT scan on them, and very shortly after they were wheeled out to radiology, they were wheeled back to their room. They weren't able to fit into the machine. I suppose in the back of my mind I always knew it was theoretically possible to be too big for a CT but I had never seen it in person until that moment. I cannot imagine how humiliating it would be to be told "Sorry, we'll have to take you to the zoo so we can use the machine they made to handle megafauna in order to get a proper diagnosis."
Is it still true that surgeons are still trying to develop better ways to stich up fat people? I've heard from some doctors friends I know who have done surgery on fatties is that doing sutures on fat people is basically impossible as they tend to rip really easily.Hospital lab tech here. The obesity epidemic seems to grow out of proportion in poor and rural areas.
I had a patient who was Hamber's size. I could barely tie the tourniquet around her arm. The tourniquet popped right off, and I still got all of the blood that I needed.
Another fat fuck who was totes afraid of needles was in the ER twice this year for chest pain. He is having chest pains for a reason.
My third fat fuck was an obese elderly gentleman who recently left the hospital and then had a massive heart attack at home. Watching the CPR machine jiggle his 200 pounds of stomach fat was so gross.
Seeing fat fucks for a living and seeing their horrid diet as a Wally World cashier did not inspire me to lose weight, but seeing fat fucks along with the complete picture of their lab results and health issues made me lose twenty-five percent (and counting) of my body weight.
Remember, kiddies, fatlogic is poison, and stay the furthest away from those fat activists.
I saw many when working in a grocery store as well, but in my region it wasn't the 2-liters of soda. It was the 6-packs of 20 oz plastic bottles. They'd take the sixer and make it straddle the edge of the shopping carts to leave room inside for food. 5-10 six packs perched all around the edge of the cart. The barely ambulatory fats who didn't use a scootie-puff would cross both arms and practically heave their upper body onto the shopping cart handle. They'd lean over and just sort of trudge along miserably, bent in half.When I worked at a grocery store, I met many. It’s probably the only time some of them leave their house. It was always interesting to see what they bought compared to most people. Usually entire carts full of junk food and frozen meals. Also a LOT of soda. Like 10-12 two liter bottles. They didn’t even pick the fake ‘healthy’ frozen meals either, it was all pizza rolls and beef stroganoff and stuff.
There was also an old man who was only regular fat (somehow) who ate a half pint of ice cream a day. He’s buy massive amounts of ice cream in bulk for the week. Peoples eating habits are wild.