50 stone girl

[MaryMotherOfCheeses]

Why is this on the news?

Is it news or freak show?

Do 16 year olds get put into care?

Her mother didn't have to refuse her food, there are healthy versions of everything. Pizza, burgers.... All can be made healthy, if they had wanted to. There are enough tv shows biggest loser/ you are what you eat/ supersize superskinny etc, to prove it can be done.

I think that while it is technically her responsibility now as a legal adult, it is impossible for her to take it. Growing up in a dysfunctional home is very hard to recover from [bitter experience emoticon] - no matter how much you know about losing weight it would be next to impossible when you have 19 years of (unintentional) brainwashing from your parents.

"For the last six months at least of her life, someone was physically giving her the food"

Eating is a nessacery bodily function, she has choice, so food cannot be with held, as it cannot be now that she is in hospital.

It hasn't been six months, up until a few days ago, she could feed herself, she has been on the internet regulary.

there are healthy versions of everything

Georgia has been taught how to eat healithy, by her own admission, she has chose not to, she has that right.

Just like you or i could choose to take part in the TT races or jump out of an aeroplane.

The difference is that she is so visable, wheras i will probably walk past a few people killing themselves with herion today in my area, but i won't register it.

Growing up in a dysfunctional home

I think that even that is unfair as the co-dependancy around food seemed to start around the death of her father, then escalated.

How much will they be giving her in hospital? Normal hospital meals are not huge.

They won't dramatically reduce her calouries, straight away.

Allthough she is doing well, they have said that realistically her organs can fail at any time and they could stilllose her, unfortunately.

Her stepdad is giving interviews and things seem to different to how the DM have portrayed them.

So if they aren't dropping her calories, rmthen how will they match what she was eating before? Will the NHS honestly be feeding her the same way as her mother did?

You say she has the right to do all this overeating....but how can thd nhs/housing/emergency services be expected to fork out for this mess? £100,000 to get her out of her room and into hospital, yet she has 'the right'

From what I've read her step father said he was taking fruit to hospital as she could have lots of that on a 2000 calorie/day. So sounds as if they are limiting her food intake.

It seems to me that all the recent reports of people who have got so big they can no longer walk or move out of one room, etc... have all got at least one enabler. My personal feeling is that the mother expects her daughter to care for her but feeds her what she wants "in return" thereby fulfilling her own need to feel that she is caring for her daughter, and the daughter eats it because a) she has developed an enormous appetite, and b) because it's the only care her mother shows her. I think it is scandalous that so many children in this country are expected to be carers for their sick and disabled parents. When do they get nurtured in all this? When do they get to be normal selfish teenagers able to develop their personalities?

If teh poor girl dies (with mulitple organ failure, does not sound hopeful )it is surely murder,since they were very clearly told she was in danger of death by the age of 20. The parents should be prosecuted and the book thrown at them - sheer cruelty.

That's not going to happen though

I hope that the media circus surrounding this means that she will get the funding she clearly needs to be able to do something about her weight . We are not talking about someone who is just obese , i am obese at 16 stone. This is someone who cannot function anymore , who is staring death in the face . You do not eat yourself to 63 stone without there being underlying issues which need to be addressed first . She could lose the weight with support and assistance from health professionals and i really hope she acheives it and lives to benefit from it .

My sister chose to have four children knowing that she would need a Caesarian section for each one and that each baby would be in scbu for at least a week every time. ( advance knowledge due to medical condition)

Sorry but whats that got to do with the price of bread here?

Sorry I don't get the comparison at all. In fact I think its rather crass and suggestive that your sister is somehow selfish which I think is a pretty grim statement to make.

You are coming a situation where an independant adult is making a decision and comparing it with a situation where a woman who has had the same health issue since childhood and clearly isn't independant despite apparently being a carer for her family (which I find more than a little hard to buy on several level especially when she ends up bedridden herself) and the problem isn't being tackled.

If you want to bring money into it, then look at the poor managment of funds in her case - it costs money to have carers come to the house. If there are carers coming to the house she is under medical supervision. If she is making money from media appearances, when people are making money out of her being a freak show. If she can't make her own food as shes bedridden, then she is relant on others to bring her. You don't suddenly get the the stage of consuming 13000 calories a day, without wilful assistance to do that. That means a whole bunch of people have failed her and have continued to fail her.

And thats the shocking thing to my mind. Not how obese she is.

NHS costs have fuck all to do with it. It about a complete lack of will from anyone to actually step in and help. Thats about NHS politics not funding. As soon as she needs a carer and looses that independence, then the problem is sufficient to go... "er this isn't making financial sense".

When my dd self harmed with a knife, everybody was full of sympathy. Yet I don't think you can deny that she chose to apply that knife just as much as this poor messed-up young woman is choosing to put more food in her mouth than is safe.

And yet I don't remember any judginess, either of her or of me, either on here or from the medical profession: it was all "oh, poor corydd, I do hope it can be sorted" and (from the medicals) "we must work to get this sorted and get at the underlying issues". Noone ever mentioned the tax payers.

I had a friend who jumped off the Itchen bridge. He survived and was treated in hospital. Noone complained about that either.

Another friend had years of treatment for anorexia- pretty expensive for the tax payers that. I suppose she chose not to eat pretty much in the same fashion as this young woman has chosen to overeat.

What is it about fat people that automatically dries up sympathy?

Really cory? I think your DD may have been quite lucky with HCPs if she had sympathy and no judginess. When I self harmed I was told I was manipulative, attention seeking and a waste of [hospital] space.

I am glad to hear your DD did not have the same experience! And I quite agree with your comparison :(

I understood tough to be saying its unfair to deny nhs care to the obese, as many people use nhs care that others don't- eg rugby injuries and cesearians. A few posters seemed to think that the money spent on Georgia was somehow unfair.