firecrackerz26

Looking at some posts here, mind you I'm not an expert on caloric intake, but I think roughly 2,500a day will maintain someone on an average activity lifestyle. I do think you could get up to 10,000 though, and that's not a great thing meaning that could really make someone of any size gain weight. Yes you'd have to eat like a big McDs meal, pizza, sandwiches, lots of carbs, but that's how some of these people get this weight. And yes I definetly believe Sean is on SSI, and his mother probably gets a caregiver and a retirement check. I still don't know how his mother sat back and let her son get to be 900 lbs, then 1003 lbs! To the point where he'd been confined to bed for close to 10 years and hasn't able to even shower or use the bathroom like a normal person! And it was this form of enablement that's allowed Sean to lay back and behave like a child all this time, he whined to get his way, manipulated everything, like the fake chest pain because he didn't like therapy...I do hope he has a better act on now...

Saw the Munchausens by proxy mentioned here, and while I'm not a doc I did take a lot of psych and science courses. I think there's a chance MBP could be happening here, this disease wants to have the child (in this case the adult, Sean) being totally depend and on the adult figure in the situation, his mother. Sean is the small child in the relationship, he's the manipulator and controller on this whole situation.

I strongly suspect Sean has a mental or behavioral problem, or both. He's just like a child, and his mom is doing him NO favors. I mean, come on, when he announced he wanted burger and fries, she ran out and got it for him, and he would hold the food with both hands or the two pizzas in his lap and not even chew! The moms philosophy about not seeing your child hungry...Sean doesn't look very hungry to me! Dr Now was dealing with the most dietary stupid people, thinking if he only had one fast food meal a day that would work for him? Sean has been running things since he was a child, manipulating the food and getting to lay in bed all day.

Yes, about the injury. He said he tore ligaments in his ankle, so he was bedridden after that. 10 years ago I I tore ligaments in my ankle, I got them repaired, went through PT, all with state insurance, so I don't want to hear that he couldn't have done the same. I also agree with what everyone is saying about the food and just how much he must have been eating, I'd truly throw up eating that much! My meal for him, which I think I mentioned earlier, would be grilled chicken salad, lots of green, tomato, cucumber, carrot, lo cal dressing, watermelon with cantaloupe, cup of yogurt, and large glass of ice water with lemon wedge. That meal sounds better to me than pizza anyway. If he had started eating like that, taking responsibility for himself maybe he wouldn't have gotten to 900 lbs. but then when Dr Now sent them home to lose weight and he gained, I do think it was the maddest I've ever seen Dr Now. I also believe he may have some kind of developmental issue too, it would explain a lot of things.

I think everything I think has pretty well been said, but I'd still like to throw my two cents in. Starting with the food mom was feeding him, what was he going to do besides throw a verbal tantrum, get up and chase her? The whining about needing to eat ran pretty thin, I can't for the life of me understand why mom was going out to get him a "snack" of McDonalda burgers, fries, and sundaes, then two pizzas at a time, donuts, etc. did mom REALLY not SEE how large he was? 919 lbs? Then instead of going home and lose weight you get to 1003? Then going home from the hospital, after pulling a stunt of a fake heart attack because you're throwing a tantrum because you can't manipulate things to get more food? Counseling should have been there sooner, for both Sean and mom. Sean is just like a child, he whined, manipulated, and knew mommy would get him anything. And his attitude was very childish, playing his game boy and all when he didn't want to hear something, like the nutritionist. And yes, the scene where he told mommy in the dr office he had pooped himself! Yuck!

To post again to stress my concern about Dillon, I feel awful for him. He clearly looked more overweight, depressed, empty, and unkempt after every passing month, you figure he was just eating fast food along with Pauline when she had it, which was all the time. He can't go very far away from the apartment because his demanding, manipulative, controlling, blob of a mother might need a bag of Cheetos. And I shutter to think he has to help her bathe and use the bathroom, it's just not right. And Pauline has mentally pushed him into the ground so bad he feels her health and weight are on his shoulders, if something happens to her, Dillon now feels responsible for it. It's just a sad situation for him. He should be offered some free psych counseling to help him get back on his feet. He needs to be set free of her while there's still time! Have his own place, job, maybe some community college classes (especially since I saw here he had to drop out because of her), maybe he can make friends. He just needs to be far away from her fat, lazy, selfish behind. And how can a mother, like Pauline, and Penny, be so selfish regarding their kids best interest?

I'm not sure that this was mentioned on this forum or not, but I saw somewhere that Penny may be also suffering from that Munchausen disease, where she can't get enough attention and uses pretending to be sick to get it--like we saw Dr Now say she had some imaginary issues and sickness, like the oxygen. There was that and a few other ailments she couldn't describe why she needed medical care for...and she seemed to really like the attention she got in the hospital and even from EMS carrying her out of the house, so maybe this was part of the situation...

Thanks!

I know I'm late posting on this board, but OMG I just have to!! Penny, along side Pauline, is the most DISGUSTING, CONTROLLING, MANIPULATIVE, SELFISH, LAZY, FAT COW I've ever seen in my life! All she does is lay on her throne of lies, craving attention from everyone, including her poor 5 year old son, ordering her beaten down husband to run around buying her junk food then having to come home and wipe her considerable sizable fat ass, and literally waste up oxygen. On the way to Houston I thought she'd kill Edgar for ordering her a grilled sandwich! Then when they got to Texas and had 20 people carry her hugely obese self in, mind you that Penny loves attention, Dr Now had her number right away; lots of issues, imaginary ones like you never see her attempt to walk, because she too damn fat and lazy, and the oxygen! The oxygen slays me, she doesn't need it, she wants that oxygen to plead her case with how disabled she is. She has enough oxygen stored in her for 10 people, maybe that oxygen should go to a sick person who REALLY needs it!! And Penny would have NEVER lost any weight on her own had she not been on a controlled diet in the hospital. Then, after surgery, like twin sister Pauline she's to damn lazy to walk. A few weeks after surgery we hear Dr Now pronounce she's lost no weight after surgery, surprise surprise! He suspects someone is sneaking her food...gee I wonder if her mentally defeated husband is bringing her cartons of Ben and jerry every nite? And when her nurse, who must have patience of gold is explaining her bariatric diet to her, Penny said "nobody said she had to lose weight in the hospital"? I wanted to SCREAM! Dr Now was right to send her home, give the hospital long needed break. Rather than fooling with Liam when she gets home she has to bitch at Edgar to move furniture, we don't want Penny to strain a neck muscle looking at the tv. And she doesn't look sugar deprived waiting for her big helping of meatloaf and potatoes, she knows what's good for her diet, like Pauline! And OMG, I almost EXPLODED about the wontons! And it looked like she had several! Yes she knows lots about food, Penny you're setting a great example to your son. I was glad Dr Now called to the office, of course it again took every fireman in town to lift her...and making a remark that she felt like Cleopatra!!!?? OMG!! I wanted to slap her into next year. When we found out she gained 5 lbs at home, wow, I have to say that was, next to Pauline, the maddest I'd ever seen the doc! And she damn well deserved it, whining that the scale was wrong...yea right. Her ever loyal Edgar just keeps cheering as she has trained him to do, and even promises her ice cream. Penny spouted all this out that she did this for her son, no she didn't! She did this to call attention to herself, manipulate people to think she's a saint, Liam would be better off with one of her sisters while Penny gets some real help and Edgar isn't under her spell, Penny, if you're reading this--you are a horrible mother, if you cared about your son you would have taken that surgery seriously. You're a MASTER MANIPULATOR who has her husband completely doing everything, even wiping your ugly fat ass, and the thing is you don't seem embarrassed about that! Oh, and I don't even believe you can wipe your vag since the surgery! You should be sorry for even saying Liam should be proud of you for having the surgery, all that child is going to remember is you laying in you bed, controlling everying, manipulating, and being as selfish as you are a fat bitch! Not to mention a huge ass liar!

Oh, and yes, I think it's a sad idea to think Penny's boy Liam could grow up to be like Dillon, who is clearly depressed and doesn't see an out to his life under Pauline's demanding ways...extremely sad...

Pauline, next to Penny, made just ill to watch! Here she gets another shot at bettering fear life with that sugery and she completely wastes it, thinking her measly 6 pound weight loss after surgery was something great. And I feel so sorry for her son, I actually don't see him as an enabler, Pauline is so controlling, manipulative, and demanding he's stuck in that situation. In my mind he should get his own place, move her potato chips to the kitchen, and tell her to walk there. And it set me crazy that whenever she had to move she cried and whined, she'll never get out of that wheelchair, and seeing her play bingo with the fattening sandwich was just it! I agree there should have been some psych evaluation with her before surgery, and her following a monitored diet on her own before getting approved...and our tax dollars are being spent on food stamps to buy her ice cream...and in the Sacramento supermarket where they got the tamales, that "let's go get a drinkie" line made me so mad I could have choked her, she's not 5 anymore!