Top 5 Reasons NOT To Be Morbidly Obese

I had a rough night at work, so bear with me on this post. This is my one-third sarcastic, one-third frustrated, and one-third heartbroken list of Top 5 Reasons NOT To Be Morbidly Obese:

5) You have to pay airline companies 2-3x the regular airfare because you occupy 2-3 seats

4) You can't fit in public restroom stalls unless you're using the stalls for the disabled

3) Paramedics have to break your door AND walls just to get you out of the house (that is, if they could even load you on a stretcher that could accommodate your weight)

2) Doctors won't know what's going on with you because you can't even fit in a CT Scanner or an MRI machine (they can't even see stuff on the xray because of the super thick fat layers)

1) You'll leave doctors and nurses stumped on how to save your life when your heart craps out: no access to veins, no access to arteries, no effective CPR (short of jumping on your super thick chest), and, seriously, not enough electricity to shock your heart back to sinus rhythm (who knows, maybe 350J was just tickling your heart).

*sigh* I feel sad for her and I feel sad for her family. She was only 19 years old, yet 465 lbs.

-posted by tanya-