The half ton mum: Tragic story of world's heaviest woman

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The half ton mum: Tragic story of world's heaviest woman
By TAMARA HARDINGHAM-GILL - More by this author »

Last updated at 21:19pm on 30th December 2007

Renee Williams became the largest person ever to have gastric bypass
surgery earlier this year after ballooning to nearly seventy stone – but
died 12 days later.

The bedridden 29-year-old begged doctors to perform the operation when she
became so large that she couldn't hug her two children.

Her astonishing size meant that the operating table had to be specially
widened for the procedure.

The operation was successful and Renee lost four stone due to her reduced
stomach capacity before dying of a sudden heart attack less than two weeks
later. Her story is told in a Channel 4 programme next week.

Renee, from Austin, Texas, had battled with her weight since childhood and
was classified as super-morbidly obese at the age of 12.

She was married by the age of 15 and had her first child, Mirina, at 16
weighing 30 stone.

Renee had grown to a massive 35 stone by the time she had her second
daughter Mariah.

"When you don't have that thing in your head that tells you you're full,
it's disgusting the amount of food you can eat," She said.

In 2003, she was hit by a drunken driver in an accident that left her
unable to walk because her leg was crushed.

She became bedridden and began eating even more.

"She wouldn't stop eating until her stomach started to hurt," says
13-year-old Mirina.

"She would get about eight burgers and eat them all. I kept telling her she
was eating her emotions. I think she was sick and tired of being in that
bed."

Renee piled on more and more weight and by 2007 she was nearing 70 stone -
six times the size of a healthy woman in her age group.

She begged doctors to perform gastric bypass surgery on her and was turned
down by 12 who insisted that the operation was too dangerous for a woman of
her size.

"I understand the risks but I am not going to make it if I don't have the
surgery," Renee said at the time.

"I want to be able to care for my daughters and see them graduate high
school."

Gastric bypass surgery makes the stomach smaller and allows food to bypass
part of the small intestine. Patients feel full sooner, consume fewer
calories and lose weight.

Houston's Renaissance hospital finally agreed to perform the surgery after
Renee's condition deteriorated and she was given just a year to live by
doctors.

The operation on February 20th took five hours as surgeons had to cut
through masses of fat to secure the band.

"I feel like I've been run over by a truck," she said afterwards.

Renee began to lose weight immediately but suffered a sudden heart attack
on March 4th which took her life.

"I wanted to sit down in a corner and die." Says a distraught Mirina.

"Mom was my best friend and now she has gone it hurts."'

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Pearl wrote:

> She begged doctors to perform gastric bypass surgery on her and was turned
> down by 12 who insisted that the operation was too dangerous for a woman of
> her size.

Oh really now? Let me get this right. The woman weighs 980 lbs (each
"stone" is 14 lbs), and they are worried about the operation? Does that
mean that the 980 lbs isn't much of a health risk, or that the doctors
didn't want to risk the bad PR this case would bring if she passes away
under their care?

> Houston's Renaissance hospital finally agreed to perform the surgery after
> Renee's condition deteriorated and she was given just a year to live by
> doctors.

Great... She died because Doctor pukes dragged their feet until her body
started to fall apart. Those 12 doctors she was turned down by all teamed
up to kill her!

> "I wanted to sit down in a corner and die." Says a distraught Mirina.
> "Mom was my best friend and now she has gone it hurts."'

If the first doctor had acted rather then be concerned over his own
malpractice insurance, that poor girl's mom might still be alive today.

The Master <tardis@nospam.sdf.lonestar.org.nospam> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Pearl wrote:
>
>> She begged doctors to perform gastric bypass surgery on her and was
>> turned down by 12 who insisted that the operation was too dangerous
>> for a woman of her size.
>
> Oh really now? Let me get this right. The woman weighs 980 lbs (each
> "stone" is 14 lbs), and they are worried about the operation? Does
> that mean that the 980 lbs isn't much of a health risk, or that the
> doctors didn't want to risk the bad PR this case would bring if she
> passes away under their care?

Or they realise that that much weight is a real risk for an operation like that.

>> Houston's Renaissance hospital finally agreed to perform the surgery
>> after Renee's condition deteriorated and she was given just a year
>> to live by doctors.

> Great... She died because Doctor pukes dragged their feet until her body started to fall apart.

Nope, because that stupid cow kept shovelling huge amounts of food into her face.

> Those 12 doctors she was turned down by all teamed up to kill her!

Just another of your pathetic little drug crazed fantasys.

She did that all by herself.

>> "I wanted to sit down in a corner and die." Says a distraught Mirina. "Mom was my best friend and now she has gone it
>> hurts."'

> If the first doctor had acted rather then be concerned over his own
> malpractice insurance, that poor girl's mom might still be alive today.

Or she may well have died anyway.

dkw12002@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Ouch. These stories are painful to read. I just wonder if rather than
> trying surgery since she was so overweight if, with her approval of
> course, she would consent to a kind of confinement where her nutrition
> was imposed. That would be my choice, I think. Not sure this is even a
> possibility, but it could be done in a hospital of course, or perhaps
> a nursing home where the person could not get to any extra food. It
> might have saved her life. This approach would get results for sure,
> but of course they could always just go back to the old eating habits
> once they left. dkw

Well another obese sow is pushing daises. Win one for the gipper!

"Rod Speed" <> Or she may well have died anyway.
>
>
She was committing suicide at 980 lbs.

Ted Sherman <tedsherman103983@yahoo.com> wrote
> Rod Speed

>> Or she may well have died anyway.

> She was committing suicide at 980 lbs.

Not deliberately.

"Rod Speed" <> Not deliberately.
>
>
In order to maintain a weight of 1000 pounds you have to eat about 10,000
calories EVERY DAY. When someone like that cannot even crawl off their
mattress, it is suicide for them to keep eating, and those who keep bringing
them food are killing them.

I would give them three healthy meals a day, lock the door after each meal,
and turn up the stereo so I could not hear the pig-screeching for twinkies!

MightyJoe36@gmail.com wrote
> Ted Sherman <tedsherman103...@yahoo.com> wrote

>> In order to maintain a weight of 1000 pounds you have to eat
>> about 10,000 calories EVERY DAY. When someone like that
>> cannot even crawl off their mattress, it is suicide for them to keep
>> eating, and those who keep bringing them food are killing them.

> Exactly. If it was booze or drugs, they would call that person an enabler. What's the difference?

That food is legal.

"Rod Speed" <> That food is legal.
>
>
so is booze. so is gambling in most places. there are lots of types of
addicts. enablers help an addict keep engaging in the bad activity. most
addicts keep getting worse. whether it is food, drinking, drugs, gambling,
sex, it just spirals out of control.

Ted Sherman <tedsherman103983@yahoo.com> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> MightyJoe36@gmail.com wrote
>>> Ted Sherman <tedsherman103...@yahoo.com> wrote

>>>> In order to maintain a weight of 1000 pounds you have to eat
>>>> about 10,000 calories EVERY DAY. When someone like that
>>>> cannot even crawl off their mattress, it is suicide for them to keep
>>>> eating, and those who keep bringing them food are killing them.

>>> Exactly. If it was booze or drugs, they would call
>>> that person an enabler. What's the difference?

>> That food is legal.

> so is booze.

But that doesnt need to be provided by someone else, the alcoholic an provide it for himself.

> so is gambling in most places.

Same with them.

> there are lots of types of addicts.

You havent established that that stupid woman was addicted to food.

> enablers help an addict keep engaging in the bad activity.

Doesnt mean that addicts need enablers tho.

> most addicts keep getting worse. whether it is food,
> drinking, drugs, gambling, sex, it just spirals out of control.

Thats just plain wrong, plenty do manage to give up their addiction.

And you havent established that that stupid woman was addicted to food.

"Rod Speed" <> And you havent established that that stupid woman was
addicted to food.
>
>
I guess that kind of thinking is what killed her. Her family would feed her
entire buckets of food and they would think it was normal.

It is pretty obvious that you have never been involved in any 12-Step
program and have no knowledge regarding addictive behavior, addictive
personalities, or addictions in general.

Ted Sherman <tedsherman103983@yahoo.com> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote

>> And you havent established that that stupid woman was addicted to food.

> I guess that kind of thinking is what killed her.

Guess again. She was actually stupid enough to not be able to grasp
what that gross excess of calories was doing to her risk of death wise.

> Her family would feed her entire buckets of food nd they would think it was normal.

Separate matter entirely to whether she was actually addicted to food.

> It is pretty obvious that you have never been involved in any
> 12-Step program and have no knowledge regarding addictive
> behavior, addictive personalities, or addictions in general.

You in spades with that stupid claim you made about addicts
and that claim you made that she was a food addict.

"Rod Speed" <> You in spades with that stupid claim you made about addicts
> and that claim you made that she was a food addict.
>
>
Here we go. Skippy wants to play. Climb on my leg boy and rub your little
red dinky but stop barking it is annoying.

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Ted Sherman wrote:

> most
> addicts keep getting worse. whether it is food, drinking, drugs, gambling,
> sex, it just spirals out of control.

The only people who think "sex addiction" is a bad thing, are those that
either no one wants to have sex with, or they are in lust/love with
someone who used them for sex.

Gamble too much, you become poor. Drink too much, you ruin your liver.
Have sex too much, you are VERY happy. What's the problem?

"The Master" <tardis@nospam.sdf.lonestar.org.nospam> wrote in message
news:Pine.NEB.4.64.0801011557110.2333@sdf.lonestar .org...
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Ted Sherman wrote:
>
>> most
>> addicts keep getting worse. whether it is food, drinking, drugs,
>> gambling,
>> sex, it just spirals out of control.
>
> The only people who think "sex addiction" is a bad thing, are those that
> either no one wants to have sex with, or they are in lust/love with
> someone who used them for sex.
>
> Gamble too much, you become poor. Drink too much, you ruin your liver.
> Have sex too much, you are VERY happy. What's the problem?
>

Chafing.

In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.0801011557110.2333@sdf.lonestar.org >,
The Master <tardis@nospam.sdf.lonestar.org.nospam> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Ted Sherman wrote:
>
> > most
> > addicts keep getting worse. whether it is food, drinking, drugs, gambling,
> > sex, it just spirals out of control.
>
> The only people who think "sex addiction" is a bad thing, are those that
> either no one wants to have sex with, or they are in lust/love with
> someone who used them for sex.
>
> Gamble too much, you become poor. Drink too much, you ruin your liver.
> Have sex too much, you are VERY happy. What's the problem?

It can get you in a lot of trouble if you choose the wrong time and
place.

Senator Craig comes to mind. ;-)
--
Peace, Om

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"Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein

The Master wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Ted Sherman wrote:
>
>> most
>> addicts keep getting worse. whether it is food, drinking, drugs,
>> gambling, sex, it just spirals out of control.
>
> The only people who think "sex addiction" is a bad thing, are those
> that either no one wants to have sex with, or they are in lust/love
> with someone who used them for sex.
>
> Gamble too much, you become poor. Drink too much, you ruin your
> liver. Have sex too much, you are VERY happy. What's the problem?

Ever hear of 7 deadly sins? Lust is one of them.

On 31 Dec 2007, pearl@none.com (Pearl) wrote:
>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv....html?in_artic
>le_id=505198&in_page_id=1811
>
>The half ton mum: Tragic story of world's heaviest woman
>By TAMARA HARDINGHAM-GILL - More by this author »
>
>Last updated at 21:19pm on 30th December 2007
>
>Renee Williams became the largest person ever to have gastric bypass
>surgery earlier this year after ballooning to nearly seventy stone – but
>died 12 days later.

http://tinyurl.com/3959u5

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:44:00 GMT, "Manco" <manco_dollars@net2blah.com>
wrote:

>The Master wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Ted Sherman wrote:
>>
>>> most
>>> addicts keep getting worse. whether it is food, drinking, drugs,
>>> gambling, sex, it just spirals out of control.
>>
>> The only people who think "sex addiction" is a bad thing, are those
>> that either no one wants to have sex with, or they are in lust/love
>> with someone who used them for sex.
>>
>> Gamble too much, you become poor. Drink too much, you ruin your
>> liver. Have sex too much, you are VERY happy. What's the problem?
>
>Ever hear of 7 deadly sins? Lust is one of them.
>
So is overnice....look in the mirror and talk to what you see. Of
course, you may see nothing since you aren't real.



LV
"I rode a tank and held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank."

---Sympathy for the Devil-The Rolling Stones
--------------------------------------------
"A fanatic cannot change his mind and will not
change the subject."

---Winston Churchill
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On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:54:00 -0600, Lady Veteran <armyvet@bigfoot.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:44:00 GMT, "Manco" <manco_dollars@net2blah.com>
>wrote:
>
>>The Master wrote:
>>> On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Ted Sherman wrote:
>>>
>>>> most
>>>> addicts keep getting worse. whether it is food, drinking, drugs,
>>>> gambling, sex, it just spirals out of control.
>>>
>>> The only people who think "sex addiction" is a bad thing, are those
>>> that either no one wants to have sex with, or they are in lust/love
>>> with someone who used them for sex.
>>>
>>> Gamble too much, you become poor. Drink too much, you ruin your
>>> liver. Have sex too much, you are VERY happy. What's the problem?
>>
>>Ever hear of 7 deadly sins? Lust is one of them.
>>
>So is overnice....look in the mirror and talk to what you see. Of
>course, you may see nothing since you aren't real.

I meant to type avarice, but I am going to replace that with sloth.
look in the mirror and talk to what you see. Odds are that there is
nothing there because you aren't real.

LV

"I rode a tank and held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank."

---Sympathy for the Devil-The Rolling Stones
--------------------------------------------
"A fanatic cannot change his mind and will not
change the subject."

---Winston Churchill
----------------------------------------------

Fred wrote:
> Tragic as it is how can someone get so big? Why didn't somebody stop
> her getting the food?
> Why didn't someone take control?
> Should we blame those who were giving her the food in the later stages
> for killing her?
> How difficult/dangerous is it to have a child when you weigh 30 stone?
> How did she manage the sex? what was her partner saying?
> At the end of the day it all boils down to the strength of a person's
> conviction.
> It's a pity it takes extreme cases to make us realise that
> being overweight is not what the human body was designed for. Some
> times the cost is
> very high but there is always a cost.
>
> Mike
> makememuscle.com

and now she's dead, sleeping the eternal dirt nap. Were all those burgers
worth it?

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Manco wrote:

>> Gamble too much, you become poor. Drink too much, you ruin your
>> liver. Have sex too much, you are VERY happy. What's the problem?
>
> Ever hear of 7 deadly sins? Lust is one of them.

ROTFLMAO!!!
Here is your cookie. Now go sit in the corner and let the adults continue
their conversation.