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800-pound man kicked out of hospital after ordering pizza
2015 Oct 8, 5:41pm 4,039 views 9 comments
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Strategist
2015 Oct 8, 6:10pm
For the past 80 days, Assanti said, he was getting the help he needed at Rhode Island Hospital. There, he lost 20 pounds.
So he only lost 2.5% of his body weight in 80 days. Looks like he has been ordering pizza every day.
At 800 lb he can't survive for long.
Can Rep/Con/Teas pay cash for their & their families medical needs or are they financial failures depending on help?.Sounds like socialism.
Strategist
2015 Oct 8, 7:05pm
Does Obamacare pay for his pizzas?
That's what food stamps are for!!!
Zzyzzx is right, Iron. Food stamps are for injecting your body with 800 pounds of pizza lard that costs $100, and Obamacare is for removing 800 pounds of pizza lard from your body that costs $1 million.
Strategist
2015 Oct 8, 7:11pm
That's what food stamps are for!!!
Zzyzzx is right, Iron. Food stamps are for injecting your body with 800 pounds of pizza lard that costs $100, and Obamacare is for removing 800 pounds of pizza lard from your body that costs $1 million.
Man, where can I get in on a gig like that??
Only in America.
Strategist
2015 Oct 8, 7:15pm
DieBankOfAmericaPhukkingDie says
Maybe he can get a sex change and produce a reality TV show:
THE IMMENSEST HIRSUTE LESBIAN!
I wonder how large a penis would be on a 800 pounder, and how the hell do you even find it?
Ceffer
2015 Oct 8, 7:16pm
I don't think they kicked him out. They rolled and flopped him out, leaving a viscous trail of pizza grease, slobber, sweat, piss and shit to the curb where a crane dropped him into the SUV.
Strategist
2015 Oct 8, 7:24pm
I don't think they kicked him out. They rolled and flopped him out, leaving a viscous trail of pizza grease, slobber, sweat, piss and shit to the curb where a crane dropped him into the SUV.
Ceffer is right, Zzyzzx. How the hell do you kick out a 800 pound jello?
On second thought, even if you rolled him, how do you get him out the door? What if he refuses to leave?
http://foxbaltimore.com/news/offbeat/800-pound-man-kicked-out-of-hospital-after-ordering-pizza
CRANSTON, R.I. (WJAR) — A man from Cranston who weighs 778 pounds is desperate for help after he said Rhode Island Hospital kicked him out.
The man's father said he has nowhere to take his son.
Steven Assanti, 33, said his eating addiction lead him to the trunk of his father's SUV with no place to go.
"It's an addiction, and I realize that," said Assanti.
"And it's a disease."
For the past 80 days, Assanti said, he was getting the help he needed at Rhode Island Hospital. There, he lost 20 pounds.
But after Assanti violated his care plan by ordering pizza, he said the hospital told him he could no longer stay.
"I was supposed to stay there and lose all my weight and get down to 550 to get the gastric bypass," said Assanti. "That was their plan."
A spokesperson for Rhode Island Hospital said they can't speak about Assanti's case, or the treatment of any other patients.
His father, Steven Veillette, said taking his son home will be a death sentence.
"If he comes home and I do get him up the stairs somehow, someway he's going to go right back to his eating habits," Veillette said.
So, the two men say they'll continue to drive until they find a place that will help.
"I just don't know who to turn to," Veillette said. "I called everybody - everybody you can think of in the state of Rhode Island and nobody seems to be (able to) help me."
Veillette said Assanti was able to be admitted to another local hospital, though they do not know if he will be able to stay at the new location beyond the weekend.
His social worker is looking into another permanent location for treatment.
#fat