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Re: Fat police?
I agree with much of what has already been said. The chap himself and his mother were interviewed on the radio at lunchtime and they both said that before he was carted away they had been working it out together and with a tremendous effort of will and by keeping food away from him he was fighting to control the urge to eat despite constantly feeling hungry. If he went out he didn't take any money so that he couldn't nip into shops to buy food. He was and is active and trying very hard to take control of his own life when suddenly he was whipped away like a criminal.
He had weighed 31 stone. He was put into a hospital with people who have mental illnesses despite the fact that Prader-Willi is not a mental illness but the most ludicrous part of the thing is that they didn't prevent him eating whilst he was there (about a week) and now he weights 33 stone!
They also interviewed a doctor who explained that there is no cure for P-W and the only thing that can be done is try to resist the feelings of needing to eat. He does this by making himself do other things. There was never any suggestion at any time of a gastric bypass but on first thinking of it that does sound like it could be a solution. Unless of course there could be danger to his heart undergoing a general anaesthetic when he is so big.
Anyway i'm glad to hear that he's home again now and hope that nobody else has to suffer such an indignity. Where could it all end? Who would they cart off next? Are any of us safe?
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