More Obesity in the Respiratory Ward I guess here's just one more quick update story I have. This is the last one I promise. I made a post a little while ago about being in a respiratory ward with a huge obeast that was rude, yelling at nurses and doctors, and shit his bed because he felt like it. I had to go for surgery a couple days ago, which was fine. It was nice to get out of the ward with that disgusting animal. I was in post op for a while, and then I came back to the same ward I was in before. The obese guy is still across from me. He calls his lawyer probably once a day or so to discuss suing the hospital over "mistreatment" of him, forcing him to try and sit up, not having a bed ready immediately, and causing him so much stress that now he has heart problems. His mom, who is this little old German lady always comes over and says hi to me.  She brought me vegetarian sushi the other day because she says I'm "too skinny" and need to get the same menu as her son so I can order better food. I accepted the sushi because hey, free sushi. But it kind of ticked me off her calling me too skinny. I'm not too skinny, your son is too fat. And I don't want to eat sausages and hamburgers and pizza while being bedbound. I like the soups and vegetables and puddings that I get. Just because I'm sick doesn't mean I want to turn out like your son. But I think somehow she has something wrong with her. I think she likes to keep her son fat and useless so she can keep him almost like a baby forever. She can change his diapers, feed him, and stuff like that. It's really sick.... And it was the planets 40th birthday and his brother came to visit. His brother is over 6 feet tall, thin but muscular, and is a soldier in the army. So much for the "genetics" problem. And I could hear him start to lecture his brother about trying to work out more and eat healthier. Then the beast brags about how he has been doing "arm exercises" and sat up one day. But now his health is "getting worse" and he can't do any of that anymore. I bet his brother has heard every excuse in existence.  On top of that, there's a new patient in the ward. He's probably in his 50's or 60's. But he is obese too! I was just dumbfounded. So many obese people are such a drain on the medical facilities. And the problem is that they need such extensive long term care. I see the hospital quickly getting elderly people out to make room for these assholes who have multiple health problems all due to their weight. And they act like it's a vacation. Anyway this patient, although not as big as the guy across from me, still weighs a lot. Probably over 140 kg  He is incontinent, and had fallen and couldn't get up or get help for over 10 hours. So his lungs were all screwed up and his kidneys are having issues. Also he doesn't speak a word of English. He only speaks Spanish. And no one really knows Spanish so none of the doctors or nurses can communicate with him unless his family is there. Well they all came the first night I was back. I'm guessing it was his first night too. And there were probably 10 people. About 7 of them were also overweight or obese. The other 3 were kids.  And they thought it was a good idea to bring the guy a large meat and cheese lasagna, and a huge cobbler looking thing with a couple slices of cake. Which CLEARLY is what he needs. More food and sugar and junk.sarcasm The nurses are running around busy and these overweight women are running around to the nurses, interrupting them trying to distribute medication, asking them  "Do you have a microwave? We need a microwave to heat up his food! He's hungry! Where can we heat up this food?' And the nurses are trying so politely to say "please wait until we aren't busy" But these rude women just kept interrupting their rounds. He eventually got his food.  I just don't understand the selfish attitude. It's like obese people just come in here, expecting everyone to wait on them hand and foot. They act like coming in here is vacation time, and they they deserve to be served by these lower class people. By the way the super planet across from me, the other night, had a huge fit because something went wrong with the kitchen, and they had to bring his sandwich that he "needs for his blood sugars" late. Then when they brought it they were all out of peanut butter and jam, and had to bring him egg salad. He screamed and refused to eat the sandwich until they brought him a better substitute, which ended up being tuna. TL;DR Obese people are selfish and a drain on the health care system. Planet throws fit over sandwich. Other planet's moon children bother nurses about lasagna.