Religious Nut Spends 8 Months in Recliner Before Dying

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In the “That is just nasty” file, here is the video story of a revolting “rescue” that was ultimately futile.

Firefighters were called to extricate a South Carolina man from his easy chair- where he had plopped down 8 months previously after returning from a knee surgery- then never moved.

The former preacher stayed in his chair wearing only a blanket and read his Bible every day, posting sermons online.  During the time he spent in the chair, he ballooned from 550 to over 800 pounds, never even leaving the recliner to use the toilet.

Rescuers had to cut him free from the chair as it was stuck to him, then cut a hole in the side of their trailer home to get him out.

At first, Ada and Daniel Webb considered trying to get medical help for him but became daunted when no doctors would make house calls.

“Everybody kept telling us, if you get here, we’ll help you. We didn’t have no way of getting him up, and nobody was willing to come help us,” Ada Webb said. “He just kind of said, ‘it’s in God’s hands’ at that point.

He and his wife prayed that he would somehow get up, but no medical attention was ever obtained until the day Webb’s mother finally called in for emergency help. By then it was too late, Daniel Webb died of a heart attack at the hospital.

The wife was not charged with neglect, as she had done her best for him, cleaning the chair every day.

Obesity is a condition that can’t be prayed away.

Highlights from a 2009 report indicate that if the trends in obesity continue, by 2018, 103 million American adults (43%) will be considered obese. Over this the same period US  healthcare spending on obesity will quadruple to $344 billion, accounting for over 21% of total healthcare spending.

Some counties in the deep south, particularly Mississippi and the Appalachia valley, are already at these levels.

The national average is about 26% qualifies as obese, which is defined by having a BMI (Body Mass Index) higher than 30.

Additional reading: The causes of obesity with accompanying statistics.

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13 years ago

I was going to stay out of this conversation because the obese preacher thing hits too close to home.

I just had to say I sympathize with Mother Hen on the plantar fascitis. Damn that’s painful. I have to wear the damn orthotic the rest of my life.

Stella by Starlight
13 years ago

When I grow up, I want to be Mother Hen, Jess, and Dusty. Yes on everything all of you wrote. {~applause~}

Michael John Scott
Reply to  Stella by Starlight
13 years ago

What a cool comment Sis. Thanks.

13 years ago

That was disgusting. But I gotta think….What would it take for Mother Hen to clean my recliner everyday?

I figure that I would have to look like Brad Pitt, surrounded by huge stacks of Diamonds and Emeralds, and my poop smelled like Nutella. And that would require begging and pleading

Reply to  Krell
13 years ago

Yup- that about sums it up. Not even if you looked like- hell not even if you WERE Johnny Depp. You could never say I was being an enabler at least!

I’m not so sure she did all that good a job at cleaning it, considering it was welded to him.

13 years ago

Yuk. I was about to eat lunch, but I think I’ll postpone that. What he lacked in brains, he made up for in rolling pillows of fat. Stuck to the chair!? Jesus.

Jess
Reply to  C.H. McDermott
13 years ago

Oh come on now, you’re not like that 🙂 That is just outright discrimination of Lush Rimjob and his pillows of fat, who is using that video as motivation, so that he can someday be just like that. **I’m hoping anyway**

13 years ago

After I blew out three discs in my lower back in a work accident five years ago, I was unable to do anything..moving around, standing for more than a few min, sitting, etc was even painful. I gained around 50-70 lbs in a two year span from being immobile…due to the PAIN.

When I went to the doctor that would decide who was at fault for the injury..me or the employer, he said I was morbidly obese at 210 lbs and 5’4″ in height. Now, I think he was a tad over dramatic as I could walk and do anything, but I was in pain due to the injury. As long as I was medicated up to my brown eyes I could do anything I pleased is my point here so how could I be morbidly obese? His diagnosis was the employer was at fault.

Anyway..I lost 70lbs. I put myself on a liquid diet and walked flat on a treadmill..nothing more exercise-wise because of the injury was allowed by my orthopedic surgeon. Took me about 8-10 mos.

Once my back started healing from blowing out the three discs, and taking anti-inflammatory meds daily most of the constant pain subsided. I still have pain and sometimes it tops the charts but it’s livable most days.

But people who are lazy and do this to themselves are pathetic creatures. I have no sympathy for them.

Reply to  Dusty
13 years ago

I have blown out my back as well, and topped out at 225 lbs before having back surgery and losing it eventually. I got down to a size 4 (I am 5’8″) by working out constantly. I never ever have a pain free day. Never. But there are levels of it- some I can function through, others not so much.
(I am able to deal with most of it by taking aspirin and naproxen)

Ironically I am quite the fatass right now (thank you hysterectomy), and no doubt would be considered obese by any measurement, but I still have a figure and am physically active all the time.

There is definitely a difference between this: http://sandiegofashioncalendar.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55412512b883401310fc1d54a970c-800wi

and this

http://colinak.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/fat-bikini.jpg

I’m thinking those clamoring for obese acceptance have never been fit in their lives. I own up to my fatness, and freely admit I need to leave off the ice cream. I ask for no special favors, and I certainly don’t expect the world to provide me with a crane to lift my fat ass to a medical facility so I can be told by a professional that I need to eat less.

Reply to  Mother Hen
13 years ago

I adore you Mother Hen! I still say my ass needs it’s own zipcode although the Ball n’ chain now disagrees. I went from a size 24 (my highest during the cold war after the injury) down to a 14 (now). I have been smaller in my life and I looked like a junkie according to family and friends with hollowed out eyes and sucked in cheeks. I like having a figure and not being a stick figure which is what society seems to approve of.

There has to be a middle ground..and frankly I don’t give a rats ass where it is, so long as I am comfortable with myself. I want the rest of us to be comfortable and healthy with our bodies. Being healthy is the key word. Being thin is not always healthy.

Reply to  Dusty
13 years ago

LOL- when I am thin and have a perfect body, my face looks too gaunt. Even as fat as I am now, you can’t tell it on my face, which doesn’t gain much weight. Krell would complain when I was thin that I looked like Skeletor. Since it took several hours a day to maintain my skinny weight, plus constant vigilance on my eating, it is not as high on my priority list as merely losing enough to keep my plantar fascitiis from acting up.

Reply to  Mother Hen
13 years ago

When I go to write a check or use one of my few credit cards its a huge pain as my drivers license is the old Dusty..fat face and hair color is black..it looks nothing like me now. I have to spend 15 minutes with the once upon a time shit.

Another angle for me: Society makes it hard on kids that are fat (some have health/emotional issues,lets be fair) and society makes it hard on kids that want to be board thin because that is considered the acceptable image..its sickening on both ends of the spectrum. Kids are so easily swayed.

The problem with morbidly obese adults is this: Quit making excuses and accept that you are a lazy fuck and will die before your children and your time or change!

oso
Reply to  Dusty
13 years ago

Mother Hen and Dusty:

To hell with those skinny broads!

Michael John Scott
13 years ago

Bible need to come with warning like cigarette packs:

Warning: Reading the Bible can be dangerous to your health and may turn you into a nut case and cause malignant obesity.

Reply to  Michael John Scott
13 years ago

Having an elephantine enabler didn’t help him either.

Jess
13 years ago

I would say something mean like…. but I won’t because it would be nasty.

Reply to  Jess
13 years ago

By all means do share! I am sick of the mollycoddling politically correct “obese acceptance” BS that goes on. Notice in the CDC graphic how the Bible Belt states are all the ones with the biggest obesity problems?

Maybe they should be praying for God to strike the fork from their fingers…”Stop me Jeebus before I eat again!”

Jess
Reply to  Mother Hen
13 years ago

Oh ok then, since you twisted my arm. Here is one of my nastier comments, about sitting and making your ass a wide load sign, while praying to a god for help for it, instead of you know, nutrition and lifestyle changes. It’s one less idiot taking up space, praying to some imaginary sky being when four words would have helped his lazy ass instead of being glued to a seat looking for divine intervention. Eat less, move more. I’m probably not the one to talk about weight, because I am a tiny thing but still, reading a Bible, instead of a diet book, really, REALLY.

Reply to  Jess
13 years ago

Jess, it also goes to the folks that think their god will heal their really sick children. I can not wrap my mind around them thinking that way as they watch them getting sicker and sicker.

When the child dies they have the audacity to then say: It was gods wish. I got batshit crazy then, asking..how is that a kind caring god?

13 years ago

I’m sorry to learn these people apparently had a kid (blurred out). This is one gene pool that needed to come to a dead end with those two…

Reply to  mbarnato
13 years ago

Enablers are the worst. This kid is learning at the knee of his mother how to do that.

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