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08-11-2004, 11:33 AM #1
Man trying to lose 800 pounds
Holly fatness batman....
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Man trying to lose 800 pounds
Doctors treat man who once weighed half a ton
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 Posted: 11:23 AM EDT (1523 GMT)
Patrick Deuel, 42, weighed 1,072 pounds when he was admitted to a Sioux Falls hospital eight weeks ago.
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) -- A man who once weighed more than half a ton has lost 321 pounds under the care of a team of doctors and hopes to lose 450 pounds more.
Patrick Deuel, 42, of Valentine, Nebraska, weighed 1,072 pounds when he was admitted to Sioux Falls' Avera McKennan Hospital eight weeks ago. Deuel, who is just under 6 feet tall, is on a 1,200 calorie-a-day diet.
"If we hadn't gotten him here, he'd be dead now," said Fred Harris, Deuel's lead doctor.
The former restaurant manager has been bedridden since last fall. He has battled heart failure, thyroid problems, diabetes, pulmonary hypertension and arthritis, and needed help just to roll over in bed.
"Until recently, I wasn't able to see any light at the end of the tunnel," he said Monday from his hospital bed.
A group known as the League of Human Dignity helped arrange for Deuel to be driven to a local livestock scale, where he could be weighed.
According to the Guinness World Records Web site, the record for heaviest man in the world is 1,397 pounds (629 kilograms), held by Jon Brower Minnoch of Bainbridge, Washington, who died in 1983.
Deuel, who has battled weight problems all his life and blames his condition in part on genetics, said it took months to find a hospital. Hospitals closer to his home balked at admitting him, he said.
"I got scared because I couldn't help him anymore, and I didn't know who would help him," said his wife, Edith.
Harris said Deuel's care could cost millions of dollars, much of which the hospital may have to cover. Officials found a special ambulance, and hospital workers joined two beds to accommodate Deuel.
One of Deuel's goals is to walk out of the hospital. He also wants to go to a Nebraska Cornhuskers football game, and just take a walk with his wife.
"Even though he's faced negativity all these years, he's not a negative person," Edith Deuel said. "He's almost always been able to stay bubbly and make jokes and be happy."
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08-11-2004, 11:35 AM #2
Can You Post The Link For This Fat Bastard?
When you have to get weighed in at a live stock scale -- you got problems!!!
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08-11-2004, 11:41 AM #3
Dayum...Holy Cow....Fatman!!! He must have ate Robin!!! lol
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08-11-2004, 11:41 AM #4
Cmon now, like he said, its ALL genetics!
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08-11-2004, 11:59 AM #5
Yea but most people arent going to die immediately if they dont lose a few.
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08-11-2004, 12:00 PM #6AR Hall of Fame
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Originally Posted by fitnessNY
Thanks!
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08-11-2004, 12:01 PM #7Originally Posted by fitnessNY
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08-11-2004, 12:02 PM #8
And im sure the 8000 calories a day he probably ate had nothing
to do with how fat he was **** i just wanna go do some situpss
and crunches.
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08-11-2004, 12:02 PM #9
Saw it on CNN.COM this morning......wouldn't you think you needed to do something when you reached 400....500....600?
I don't get it.
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08-11-2004, 12:04 PM #10
Fuuuuuuuukkkkkk!!!!! That is one big fat mofo...I bet he sweats like a gorilla...lol
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08-11-2004, 12:07 PM #11
hahahahah sorry but thats funny. "he blame it on genetics and the new whopper from burger king"
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08-11-2004, 12:12 PM #12
OK am I the only one shocked at this comment:
""I got scared because I couldn't help him anymore, and I didn't know who would help him," said his wife, Edith."
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08-11-2004, 12:21 PM #13
This does not even change my attitude about fat, obese, sedintary bastages. Just take a look at swoles website, those are the people I feel for because they try and loose the weight, the don't live sendintary life styles and they strive to make themselves better. I hate when fat people try to blame their parents or fukn McDonalds. Even try to sue these places because they stuff them selves untill they weigh 6-700lbs. This makes me sick to see someone who cares for him to say she got scared and she couldn't help him. That is a fukn joke, you can only help yourself.
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08-11-2004, 01:04 PM #14
Looks like my boss
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08-11-2004, 01:20 PM #15Originally Posted by Maraxus
By boss.. you mean girlfriend??
jk bro
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08-11-2004, 01:25 PM #16Originally Posted by slizzut
Not cool.
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08-11-2004, 01:46 PM #17Originally Posted by Maraxus
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08-11-2004, 02:07 PM #18Originally Posted by fitnessNY
I think so bro, does yours reak of salami and beef jerky?
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08-11-2004, 03:34 PM #19
i wonder how much he can bench
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08-11-2004, 04:51 PM #20Anabolic Member
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08-11-2004, 05:24 PM #21Anabolic Member
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oh look!!
it's ****ing yoda with a gladular problem!!!!yeah blame genetics tons of fun!!that's a ****ing insult to everyone who has strived to beat their gentic makeup and got it done through intensity and structure.this is the exact reason why i hate fat people!!they never point the finger at themselves.**** him!
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08-11-2004, 07:39 PM #22Originally Posted by mustang331
Shocking and down right dirty
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08-11-2004, 07:56 PM #23Originally Posted by Benches505
nm i dunt wanna know whut they do in the bedroom, **** here comes a bad dream tonight.
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08-11-2004, 09:04 PM #24Originally Posted by partyboynyc
(Also Surgery is too riskful and stimulants too dangerous!! so it is a real brainer for the specialists)
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08-11-2004, 09:47 PM #25Originally Posted by Diesel
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08-11-2004, 09:55 PM #26
drop it rubby
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08-11-2004, 09:56 PM #27
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drop it rubby
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08-12-2004, 09:45 AM #28Originally Posted by Maraxus
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08-12-2004, 09:47 AM #29Originally Posted by slizzut
Got ya sucka
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08-12-2004, 10:57 AM #30Originally Posted by Maraxus
you bastard
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