The fattest man in the world
In 2001, Paul Mason, the fattest man in the world at the time, became famous for a hernia medical malpractice.
At that time, Paul, who was eating and drinking at home, suddenly felt severe pain in his abdomen. The mother who lived with him heard her son's cry and hurried to call the emergency number.
When the medical staff rushed to the scene, they only saw a big fat man of at least 1,000 pounds twisting and turning in pain on the bed, and with each twist, the room would shake slightly and make a "creaking" sound.
Since the medical device he carried could not penetrate the fat to check the condition of the body, the doctor could only make a simple diagnosis and determine that Paul had a hernia.
This was originally a very simple minor illness, and it only took less than 30 minutes to go to the hospital to recover. But the problem is that Paul is too fat, and after measurement, he weighs more than 500 kilograms, which is half a ton! Not only could medical staff not lift him, but even the doors and corridors of his home could not pass.
Forced to do so, the paramedics contacted the fire brigade and demolished an entire wall of Paul's house and built a temporary downhill slide before sending Paul to a forklift and a five-ton ambulance to the hospital.
Until then, however, the problem had only just begun. Because Paul was so obese that he couldn't even undergo the normal surgical procedure, the hernia problem, which could have been solved in ten minutes, left him lying in the hospital for three years. In the process, he was also asked more than once to sign an agreement that if Paul died unexpectedly in the hospital, his body could be taken to the slaughterhouse and cremated in the same way that the hospital disposed of his body unconditionally.
Why did Paul Mason grow so fat? How did the weight of 500 kilograms affect his life? Today, we're going to talk about his story.
Mental stimulation
In fact, Paul wasn't born so fat. Once, like everyone else, he had a normal figure, lived an ordinary life, and even had a love affair
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But when he was twenty years old, the sudden death of his father and the cruel abandonment of his lover caused Paul to suffer great psychological trauma, and he suffered from bulimia nervosa, which is what we often call "bulimia".
At first, he would control himself, restrain his appetite, set rules for himself, eat only 2 pizzas per meal, and drink only 10 bottles of Coke a day. But even so, his food intake is still far beyond ordinary people, and his weight has soared all the way.
At the same time, excessive diet has also caused serious effects on Paul's body, first of all, in daily life, due to long-term consumption of high-oil and high-sugar fast food, Paul quickly gained weight, and often had physical weakness, and it is possible to faint because of high blood pressure anytime and anywhere.
Not only that, due to the long-term consumption of a lot of chocolate and cola, Paul's teeth were eroded by sugar and carbonic acid, 17 of the 28 teeth became bad teeth, in order not to be tortured by bad teeth, he personally pulled out all the bad teeth, which led to his future eating, can only use the two sides of the back teeth to chew. But that still didn't stop him from eating like crazy, and the amount of food increased unabated, and at its most exaggerated, he could eat 9 pizzas and 20 packs of fries and 6 hamburgers in one meal!
But fortunately, Paul was still able to work reluctantly, working as a courier in Glasgow, and his monthly salary barely supported himself. Until one time, he stole money from a client's envelope to buy food, and this theft not only cost him his job, but also sentenced him to six months in prison.
After being imprisoned, Paul completely lost his confidence in life, he gave up a normal life, did not go out and did not look for a job, stayed at home every day to watch TV, eat, and rely on his mother to go out to work to support himself.
The life of a "half-ton man"
The self-defeating life made Paul's weight soar to 508 kilograms, so that the fat weight made him completely incapacitated, and he could only live on a bed composed of four mattresses, and eating and drinking Lazar could only be completed with the help of his mother.
In order not to let Paul usually get bored, his mother pulled the bookshelf and table to Paul's bedside, and the bookshelf was filled with CDs and various books and telephones, and paul could reach what he wanted to see or who he wanted to call and chat. The table was full of all kinds of food and drink, and Paul could take it at any time when he was hungry, and if he finished eating, he would press his mother's special electric horn and let her bring the food to him.
The problem of eating and drinking is solved, and the next step is to solve the problem of Lazar. Because paul is overweight, even if he can move, he can't walk into the toilet, so his mother bought him a lot of oversized adult diapers, let him directly pull the urine on the diapers, and every morning and evening, his mother helped him replace and clean. Of course, this also made Paul have to be careful about one thing, and that was farting. According to himself, because he was too fat, if he farted too quickly, it was easy to get the feces on the diapers everywhere, so the most attentive thing he did every day was to try to fart as slowly as possible by all means.
In addition to the problems with eating and drinking Lasa, Paul had to maintain emotional stability every day, and could not have great joy or sorrow or anger, because his blood pressure was very high, and once he had any emotional excitement, he would begin to dizzy, and if the situation was serious, he would directly shock or even endanger his life.
Lying flat like this, relying on his mother to support himself, Paul lived for more than ten years, until the hernia medical accident mentioned at the beginning.
Weight loss ushers in a new life
The hernia incident made Paul feel humiliated and remorseful as never before, and he also knew that the doctor did not have any malicious intentions, but forcing himself to sign an act that allowed the other party to treat him like an animal still made him feel very uncomfortable. Because of this, he came up with the idea of losing weight.
At first, based on the doctor's advice, Paul adopted a step-by-step diet exercise weight loss method. But within days, Paul learned that when he was young, he had paid a sum of money to the National Health Service, which allowed him to enjoy the most perfect weight control service in the UK at a very low cost.
Knowing that he had publicly funded medical treatment as his backing, Paul decisively waved his hand, ordered 10 pizzas, and continued to start a life of eating and drinking.
When a person abandons himself, not even Jesus can save him. This sentence is the best portrayal of Paul during that time.
At that time, Paul ate and slept every day, almost exactly like at home, or even more so. Later, Paul's mother died unexpectedly, and Paul not only did not feel sad about it, but sold the property left by his mother for the first time, and stuffed the money he had earned to buy more food into his mouth.
According to the data later given by the hospital, Paul's daily caloric intake reached a staggering 20,000 calories at that time, which was 10 times that of normal people! That is, he eats for ten people a day. Such a huge amount of food and calorie intake, even the world's most advanced weight control system can not work.
Soon, even Paul himself realized his physical deformity, he had a hand that was far beyond ordinary people, but the strength was far lower than normal, and it was quite laborious for him to lift a 3KG dumbbell, and every time he raised the cup and drank it, the hand would lose its strength for a while.
Not only that, due to the long-term inability to bathe and obesity, there will always be a foul odor on his body, which makes no one want to go near him, and even doctors and nurses will disinfect and deodorize the room before examining him.
This situation made Paul once again disappointed in his life.
In 2008, with what little money he had left at the time, he entrusted someone to buy a large bag of cocaine, swallowed enough drugs to poison two adult males, and then closed his eyes and prepared for death.
But ironically, the next day he woke up as usual, the toxins of the drugs were absorbed by his fat body, and he just felt some headaches.
A year later, Paul once again experienced a heart attack caused by obesity, which almost killed him, and in order to save him, the hospital had to invite seven medical experts from relevant specialties to take turns to operate on him to save his life. And the long-term service to Paul has also made the British medical service system somewhat overwhelmed.
To this end, the staff decided to force Paul's stomach to lose weight by reducing his stomach to the capacity of only one egg through an operation.
This operation was very successful, from 2010 to 2013, paul successfully lost 120 kilograms, although there is still a certain distance from the "normal person", but it also gives Paul the opportunity to "be a man again", after more than twenty years, he can finally go to the toilet like a normal person, put on his own clothes, and walk out of the house on his own legs.
Soon, however, new problems followed, as the rate of weight loss was too fast, and he was too obese before, which led to Paul's loss of weight leaving a sequelae: a bloated and unsightly tumor skin.
This is especially evident in his hands, when he raises his arms, the two swollen "meat sacs" will naturally fall, like a deformed fat bat. This gave Paul some options, and he hoped that the hospital would continue to provide him with physical control services and help him remove excess skin, but the hospital believed that Paul's priority was to lose weight, not to remove the skin.
During this time, Paul meets a "little fan" Rebecca.
She was an American who learned of Paul's story on the TV news and was touched by his story and experience, so she took the initiative to contact Paul through social media. And took the initiative to help him contact the American surgical institution to perform peeling surgery for him.
Paul was touched by Rebecca's efforts, and the two immediately established a relationship.
In 2014, with the help of Rebecca, Paul came to Massachusetts and started a new life.
Repeat
After coming to the United States, Paul lived with his girlfriend and, with the help of his girlfriend Rebecca, underwent a skin removal surgery at the Lenox Hills Hospital in Manhattan. In the nine-hour operation, the doctors removed a total of 31 kilograms of skin, used 1200 sutures, and sutured a total of 2.5 meters of wounds.
The surgery caused Paul to lose weight again and have the courage to go out on a date with his girlfriend. During this time, he and his girlfriend went to the cinema in the city center every day to watch movies, enjoy afternoon tea together, or go for a swim on the beach together.
However, this comfortable life did not last long, and soon the pressure of reality overwhelmed Paul.
Perennial living makes it difficult for Paul to communicate with people other than his girlfriend, and his weight has become an obstacle to his job search, although he can do most of the things that normal people do, but the weight of more than 300 kilograms still makes him rejected by many companies.
Paul's delay in working makes his girlfriend, who is alone with the burden of life, feel physically and mentally exhausted. After living together for 4 years, the girlfriend chose to take the initiative to end the relationship.
Paul, who had lost his lover, was once again haunted by pain and hunger, and he relapsed from his old illness and began to eat and drink again, and in order to facilitate eating, he also installed a small oven at the head of his bed to heat food at any time. Such a life made Paul's body rebound rapidly, soaring all the way to 442 kilograms.
With no job and his girlfriend long gone, Paul, who had lost his financial support, once again went down the path of crime in order to get food. In November 2018, Paul was arrested on the spot and sentenced to weeks in prison for stealing items from Walmart, and everything seems to be back 20 years.
Enemy of the whole people
In 2019, Paul was repatriated to the UK by the US because he was unsecured, had no stable job, and had a criminal record.
However, the vast majority of the British showed extreme disgust and disgust toward Paul's return. They think Paul is a parasite who repeatedly fattens up and loses weight in order to cheat on eating and drinking. Someone online says "Stop eating that much!" Some people even broke their mouths on the Internet and shouted, "You should be treated as a beast and sent to the slaughterhouse to be killed!" ”
But despite the scolding, Paul was eventually placed by the government in a shelter in Plymouth, where he was cared for 24 hours a day. Although he claimed to try to restrain his weight during the new crown, he still gained 18 pounds.
At present, he weighs 495 pounds and has not been out for 2 months, and when he needs to go out, he must be helped by the staff to get him out through slings and carts.
Everything seemed to have changed, but it was as if nothing had changed.