Has anyone read or heard on the news about the 42 stone woman?

Question

Does anyone else think it is out of order that she is blaming the NHS for her obesity, even though they funded her care in the priory to treat her over-eating, and she refused help from the local health authority regarding her psychological problems?

Does anyone think the husband is partly to blame as she has been house-bound for 18 months and he does the shopping and feeds her?

I think she is so out of order and the husband could easiley help her by not feeding her.

Answer 1

I think that this woman is just looking for some one to blame for her ownlaziness and incomptance to lead a healthy balanced life. After all the NHS (taxpayers) have already funded a stay in The Priory for her where she lost weight and then when she came out she put it all back on. I am not being nasty but who pays for all the food she is eating when her husband has given up work to look after her and she obviously can't go to work because of her ILLNESS?
YES thats right us the tax payers. I wonder if I was to lie in bed all day having food passed to me if the NHS would mind sending me into a fancy clinic for treamtment. I think she needs to get a grip and sort her life out before she kills herself. Sorry but people like this get right up my nose, when you have people who are terminally ill fighting to live and then people like this woman who kill themselves through laziness and total ignorance.

Answer 2

Please read my contribution to this 42 stone woman discussion. I have had some experience of uncontrollable hunger even 1 hour after eating a full well balanced meal. I put on over two stone before I even began to work out what was happening and I am medically qualified. At 10 am in the Supermarket I could be fainting and have an intolerable hunger and had to take the biscuits from the shelf and eat six there and then just to get myself home. There was no help from my Gp so I researched everything myself and came up with Insulin resistance. I was right and I am back to normal but many people are walking around untreated getting fatter and closer to death. It is a recognised medical issue but they are not educating people and helping them to understand what is happening.

Answer 3

I think everyone is getting too personal about this.
This lady has a serious problem, food addiction or any kind of addiction is an uncontrollable urge, yes her husband feeds her addiction - but he is not to blame, he has to raise 4 children on his own and be a carer, so obviously he has to try and make his and his children's life easier.
The priory obviously worked , she did lose weight 7 stone I believe, so that is where she wants to go back to. I am in agreement with her, if and only if she pays for it herself.
My personal opinion on this is that she has become very spoilt and is surrounded by people that she can manipulate and when she doesn't get what she wants she throws a hissy fit.

Answer 4

Hi there, Whilst I think that her husband may be partly responsible as he had an influence over her to some extent, she is responsible for her own actions. The problem is that she doesn't seem to understand this. There are many cases where this happens and to some extent it is not the fault of the person concerned.
She may be in denial about her weight problem or how psychological problems can effect weight and vice versa. Her upbringing may play a large part in this too.
She may be afraid of psychotherapy for whatever reason and until she is ready to take the plunge and try and make changes, nothing is going to make any difference.

She is not out of order so much as disordered. She cannot make changes until she understands that they need to be made. There is too much of a Nanny culture in society. We expect other people to be responsible for our actions and that just isn't right. What she needs is some empathy and someone to go and explain things outright, in as pleasant a way as possible.

Some years ago, when people required Heart/Lung transplants, Doctors refused to put them on the waiting list, if they were smokers who refused to stop smoking. The same went for alcoholics who wouldn't stop drinking, if they required a liver transplant.

There is no way the NHS is responsible for her problems. She was given priority treatment and helped as much as they could help her but they can only help her if she wants to help herself.

Answer 5

I have no sympathy for the woman it is her own fault that she is the size she is, She was given help, she got down from 35 stone to 28 stone after the NHS paid £5000 a week at the Priory clinic only to put the weight back on plus an extra seven stone, she and her family are the ones to blame has she has totally abused the NHS system. I don't blame them for refusing to treat her, she deserves everything she gets.

Answer 6

I have to agree, when anybody gets grossly overweight the only person to blame is that person as they are the ones putting the food in their mouths.
When the problem is overweight children it's mainly their parents fault, they control the shopping each week and if they don't have control over the child aswell then they will not take no for an answer. People should take responsibility for their own actions and not depend on others to be their scapegoat.

Answer 7

I think the complaint is disgusting. When we are living in a nation that is withdrawing cancer screening, has year long waiting lists for hearing aids and is generally anti funding for so many things, including physiotherapy, Why should someone who has been given help and support and the offer of ongoing help receive private funding when between herself and her husband she has caused her own problems. They are self inflicted and what she wants isn't weight loss, its a private holiday in a celebrity filled health paradise. If she had any real desire to lose the weight she would be accepting any and all help she is offered. Why should people like many Nan who is need of a hearing aid wait around for over 13months for an age related condition suffer at the hands of bureaucrats who are busy helping the causes of self inflicted addicts who are out only for their own gain!!!!

Answer 8

i agree with some of you morally righteous people out there. it might not be entirely her her fault and it could be due to some medical condition or something, but come on.... blaming the NHS is just plain RIDICULOUS, and i wish i can say that loud enough.
i mean i buy credit on my phone on my, use all of it within a few hours and then blame the person i was talking to as if they were forcing me to talk all this......, well you get the analogy.
she should take some of the blame and so should her husband.

Answer 9

I watched the interview on GMTV and it was clear she doesnt actually want help, she just wants to blame everyone else for her condition. Yes her husband can stop feeding her junk, but in reality if she did lose weight as soon as she was mobile she'd probably go back to the junk food. The NHS has done their job, why should they waste money on somebody who clearly doesnt want to get better. Perhaps they should have treated it sooner, but she doesnt see it as pyschological problem which it clearly is. I feel sorry for her family, they are the ones in true agony watching somebody slowly kill themselves in front of them, they cant do anything until she realises how ill (psychologically) she is

Answer 10

How can she say that she is being allowed to die when the NHS spent £60,000 of our tax money on getting her to the Priory. I'm on a diet but I don;t get government hand outs for it, because I can discipline my eating. People like this make me so angry with their constant whining and blaming other people. The husband is just as much to blame for feeding her. She needs to look in the mirror and ask the person looking back at her just how it came to this.