900-Pound South Carolina Man Dies after Cut from Medical Chair
Hoodoo
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900-Pound Man Dies after Cut from Chair
South Carolina Man Had Been in Medical Chair for 9 months Following Knee
Injury, Died from Cardiac Arrest
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* Daniel Webb, left, who weighed 900 pounds and died after being
cut from a chair in his South Carolina home.
(CBS) A man weighing around 900 pounds died after he had to be cut out
his chair in home, reports CBS affiliate WSPA-TV from Greenwood, S.C.
Authorities say he was stuck to a chair for nine months.
Daniel Webb, 33, died after being taken from his home on County Farm
Road Wednesday. Webb had been in a medical chair for nine months,
covered in sores and human waste.
Authorities say Webb died from cardiac arrest.
Webb hadn�t left his house, or even walked for almost nine months. His
wife Ada Webb says he hurt his knee and could no longer walk. He sat in
a Lazy-boy for the rest of his life. "If he would have had the proper
care we tried to get for him back in March this would have never
happened," his wife said during an interview Thursday afternoon.
Ada Webb says she and her husband tried to get disability and insurance
but could not and she says she didn�t know where else to turn. "I only
hope something good comes out of this because it was so unnecessary,"
Webb said. "They say he went into cardiac arrest but I say he died of a
broken heart."
Emergency Medical Services Personnel says morbid obesity has become a
real issue, and now they carry special tools onboard.
They had to use those tools for Daniel Webb.
Daniel Webb helped found the True Christian Fellowship in Westminster
and was still an associate pastor.
Watch coverage of the story:
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* Stories
* Obesity Highest in Southeast, Appalachia
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/19/health/main5711014.shtml?source=related_story
* Study: 40% of U.S. May Be Obese by 2018
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/17/health/main5683256.shtml?source=related_story
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Kris Baker
"Hoodoo" <hoo...@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> Nov. 19, 2009
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/19/national/main5715072.shtml
>
> 900-Pound Man Dies after Cut from Chair
>
> South Carolina Man Had Been in Medical Chair for 9 months Following Knee
> Injury, Died from Cardiac Arrest
>
> http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2009/11/19/image5715046g.jpg
> * Daniel Webb, left, who weighed 900 pounds and died after being cut
> from a chair in his South Carolina home.
What was he doing before the knee surgery? No one can convince
me that he wasn't already so morbidly obese, that movement wasn't
possible.
AND......again, I ask: since these people are stuck-in-place, why
would someone keep feeding them? If your skin has grown into
your chair, it's the perfect time for someone to put you on a diet.
Kris
Larc
wrote:
Wonder how much he ate for his meals? Makes me think of Sanford and Son that
used to be on TV. One of Fred's (Redd Foxx) friends once said he was so hungry
that he "could eat one of anything and its momma." ;)
Larc
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, Hoodoo <hoo...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> Daniel Webb, 33, died after being taken from his home on County Farm
> Road Wednesday. Webb had been in a medical chair for nine months,
> covered in sores and human waste.
I note the article doesn't specify *whose* human waste it was.
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Kris Baker
"Larc" <la...@notmyaddress.com> wrote in message
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I dunno about this guy, but if you've read other stories, you'll hear
about a dozen eggs and a stack of pancakes, a huge sub sandwich,
a whole fried chicken, etc, etc. All eaten by someone who can't
get out of bed, so someone's feeding them.
It takes two to be that crazy. It must be some sort of odd "you
can't leave me NOW" thing.
Kris
MWB
GO PATRIOTS
Mark
Michael O'Connor
> AND......again, I ask: since these people are stuck-in-place, why
> would someone keep feeding them? If your skin has grown into
> your chair, it's the perfect time for someone to put you on a diet.
>
And not just feeding him, but emptying his bedpan and cleaning him,
and how does he even use a bedpan if he's stuck to a chair?
AndrewJ
wrote:
> In the previous article, Hoodoo <hoo...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
> > Daniel Webb, 33, died after being taken from his home on County Farm
> > Road Wednesday. Webb had been in a medical chair for nine months,
> > covered in sores and human waste.
>
> I note the article doesn't specify *whose* human waste it was.
To paraphrase the members of Spinal Tap, you can't *dust* for human
waste...
Daly
>
>
> and how does he even use a bedpan if he's stuck to a chair?
Thus the "covered in human waste" quote in the story.
She must have fed him with a coal shovel.
Brad Ferguson
<paralle...@ggmail.com> wrote:
> I dunno about this guy, but if you've read other stories, you'll hear
> about a dozen eggs and a stack of pancakes, a huge sub sandwich,
> a whole fried chicken, etc, etc. All eaten by someone who can't
> get out of bed, so someone's feeding them.
>
> It takes two to be that crazy. It must be some sort of odd "you
> can't leave me NOW" thing.
I saw a thing on Discover Channel or the like about "the half-ton man."
He'd topped out at about 850, got down into the 200s with some help
from Richard Simmons, and then gained it all back. He said he'd gotten
off his diet because first you need a hot dog, and then you need the
cheese fries, and then and then and then, and suddenly you're half a
ton again.
They showed dinner at his house. His wife made him two dozen pork
chops.
Louis Epstein
:
: "Hoodoo" <hoo...@spamcop.net> wrote in message
True enough.
But will the botched chairectomy be blamed for his death?
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Kris Baker
"Louis Epstein" <l...@main.put.com> wrote in message
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His wife is saying, in another story, that "not enough was done".
I think SHE did enough (unless some stranger was sneaking in
when she wasn't looking, and feeding her husband).
I remember, years ago, when Richard Simmons talked a 1,000
pound man out of his house, put him on a diet, and soon the
guy was in Simmons' commercials and TV shows.....with a gold
chain and disco-curly hair (mind you, in the early 1990s).
Then the guy disappeared, and was later reported to have
gained the weight back and more.
Anyone else remember that?
Kris
Brad Ferguson
<paralle...@ggmail.com> wrote:
> I remember, years ago, when Richard Simmons talked a 1,000
> pound man out of his house, put him on a diet, and soon the
> guy was in Simmons' commercials and TV shows.....with a gold
> chain and disco-curly hair (mind you, in the early 1990s).
> Then the guy disappeared, and was later reported to have
> gained the weight back and more.
>
> Anyone else remember that?
>
> Kris
Yes. That was the guy who had the two dozen pork chops for dinner. I
mentioned him the other day.
cat
> In article <7n0b92F...@mid.individual.net>, Kris Baker
> <paralle...@ggmail.com> wrote:
>> I remember, years ago, when Richard Simmons talked a 1,000
>> pound man out of his house, put him on a diet, and soon the
>> guy was in Simmons' commercials and TV shows.....with a gold
>> chain and disco-curly hair (mind you, in the early 1990s).
>> Then the guy disappeared, and was later reported to have
>> gained the weight back and more.
>> Anyone else remember that?
> Yes. That was the guy who had the two dozen pork chops for dinner. I
> mentioned him the other day.
There must be more than one, because I saw another half-ton guy on a
miniseries about the Brookhaven Obesity Clinic, and he'd been part of
Richard Simmons's troupe. He gained it all back and eventually had to be
taken out of his home to go to the clinic. The video of the paramedics
struggling not to break their backs dragging him down a flight of icy steps
is priceless, as he is bitching at them the whole time. Amazing how it's
always someone else's fault. This guy had such a sense of entitlement.
Brad Ferguson
<catsand...@nospam.meow.com> wrote:
I guess there must be more than one. The guy I'm thinking of lives in
Brooklyn, and the hot dogs and cheese fries he was whining about were
from Coney Island.
I remember one case in which the local fire department had to take the
wall of the guy's house down so they could get a forklift in there and
take him, bed and all, to the hospital. His fiancee (!!!) rode with
him.