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My 600 Pound Life And Other Weight-related Shows
Topic Started: Feb 9 2012, 12:56 PM (2,782 Views)
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Jan 26 2015, 01:43 PM
From what I can gather, Edgar quit his job to take care of her. She claims they live off of a medical retirement disability check she gets from a lung infection she had in 2004. That's why she claims she needs oxygen, even though her oxygen saturation was perfect without it when she was in the hospital. Dr. Now said her oxygen saturation was better than his - lol!

After her initial episode aired, there was a ton of backlash about what a waste of taxpayer money she is and she claimed that they have never been on the dole. That her disability check is from her former employer, not from SS. But, I would bet everything I own that they're getting maximum benefits from the state of Maryland. Housing assistance, food stamps, medicaid and Edgar most likely gets a monthly benefit for being her caretaker. Is there a SS benefit for children of disabled parents? If there is, you know she's getting it for their son.

If that little boy wasn't part of the equation, I wouldn't give two shits. She could lay in her her own pee and poop and order Edgar around until her body finally just gives up. But, that child deserves so much better. It infuriates me that he's being forced to live like that.
It's like the people on Judge Judy who'll answer that they get no benefits. Then she'll go down the list of possible benefits and they are getting every one. They don't consider them benefits, they consider them entitlements! They seem to think everybody gets them.

Didn't impress me too much that Penny wears plastic gloves while preparing the food considering she is sitting in her own waste.

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Penny's niece answered some questions on reddit.

According to her, Liam has a lot of family members that are active in his life and make sure he gets to do fun, normal kid things.

She says she thinks Edgar is just over it and brings her what she wants because he's tired of being screamed at.

The majority of her family tells her the truth about how she hasn't made any progress, has actually gotten worse. One family member tells her what she wants to hear and she has 'fans' that tell her she's making such great progress.

When asked about finances, she says Penny is 'very good at getting money'. Says Penny works for some friend and that the friend pays her well. She didn't reply when asked what kind of 'work' Penny did for this person.


http://www.reddit.com/r/fatlogic/comments/2tm1in/penny_from_my_600lb_life_is_my_aunt_ama/
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Jan 26 2015, 03:02 PM
Penny's niece answered some questions on reddit.

According to her, Liam has a lot of family members that are active in his life and make sure he gets to do fun, normal kid things.

She says she thinks Edgar is just over it and brings her what she wants because he's tired of being screamed at.

The majority of her family tells her the truth about how she hasn't made any progress, has actually gotten worse. One family member tells her what she wants to hear and she has 'fans' that tell her she's making such great progress.

When asked about finances, she says Penny is 'very good at getting money'. Says Penny works for some friend and that the friend pays her well. She didn't reply when asked what kind of 'work' Penny did for this person.


http://www.reddit.com/r/fatlogic/comments/2tm1in/penny_from_my_600lb_life_is_my_aunt_ama/
OOOh that was interesting. The niece has deleted most of her remarks, but the others are all there.

I wonder what that work is too. Could it be someone with some sort of a fat fetish? She was very organized with he coupon nonsense, have to give her that. Veddy veddy interesting.

Thank heavens Liam has other people in his life who do things with him.

Penny has another husband, this guy is number two. Wonders will never cease.


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Oh vey. Cut off that food supply and internet and i'll bet she'd get her ass out of that bed.

Why would anyone want to live like that? Attention?

Good lord, I had forgotten about putting Sprite on her cereal in the hospital. I'm guessing Edgar smuggled it in for her.

So, her stomach was made very tiny, right? So, to maintain that weight, she almost has to be mainlining lard every hour.
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So, her stomach was made very tiny, right? So, to maintain that weight, she almost has to be mainlining lard every hour.


Dr Nowzardin wouldn't do traditional bypass surgery on her. He did a gastric sleeve that reduced the size of her stomach to that of a banana as opposed to the football size he used as a comparison. Being the stretchy organ it is, her stomach has regained it's football (or larger) size glory. I'm guessing basketball size, myself.

Edgar smuggled in enough food for her to have gained 35 pounds after her procedure. Do you remember when she was all upset after the doc told her she'd gained weight and wasn't even trying? Edgar asked her if she wanted him to go get her some ice cream. In cases like this, family members should have to check in and have any bags searched for food before they're allowed into the patient's room.
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I had forgotten about that!!! OMG.
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Penny's original episode is worth a rewatch. It makes the update episode even more snarkworthy.
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I will definitely watch again!

I think this is the niece you were referring to, lovesnark. So her mom is Penny's sister?

At least Liam looks happy in the pictures.

Niece

Her Twitter?

This one is priceless....
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@252therapist low carb high protein (mostly chicken, turkey lean pork) I do not tolerate sugar well at all since surgery still get flushed
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Yep. And, Penny's sister used to morbidly obese and lost weight and got healthy. It's too bad the niece deleted all her posts. She didn't say anything that Penny hasn't heard already. But, I understand not wanting to have her family mad at her. She sounded like a nice kid. She takes Liam bowling with her. It sounds like Penny has been in bed since Liam was born. I think he's 7 or 8 now. Poor kid.

Penny's twitter is pretty funny. It's a trip to delusion land.
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Jan 26 2015, 11:19 PM
I will definitely watch again!

I think this is the niece you were referring to, lovesnark. So her mom is Penny's sister?

At least Liam looks happy in the pictures.

Niece

Her Twitter?

This one is priceless....
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@252therapist low carb high protein (mostly chicken, turkey lean pork) I do not tolerate sugar well at all since surgery still get flushed
Oh, damn, she's got a private Twitter account.
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Dang it. She must have just made it private. I can imagine there was some backlash after the episode aired.
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Oh dear Lord. A new season is starting. The first episode is a ginormous 23 year old girl. Looks really sad.

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Feb 9 2015, 02:03 AM
Oh dear Lord. A new season is starting. The first episode is a ginormous 23 year old girl. Looks really sad.

I couldn't bear to look at her; her legs were like tree stumps. She was an odd character. She sounded optimistic, but I thought she was fake somehow.
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Yeah, really odd, weaver. And wasn't her hair all done up in ribbons?

I set it up to tape. I have a feeling that she's another one who will say they only eat 900 calories a day.
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Feb 9 2015, 10:32 AM
Yeah, really odd, weaver. And wasn't her hair all done up in ribbons?

I set it up to tape. I have a feeling that she's another one who will say they only eat 900 calories a day.
No, this one actually admitted that she ate all day. And she had a boyfriend! That shocked me more than anything.

She did wear silly things in her hair.
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