Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
She?ll probably die. If not today, next week or even within the next few months, odds are that 63-stone Georgia Davis will lose her life to obesity.
It?s a dirty word now, obesity. We?re supposed to be changing our language ? again ? because the word obese is hurtful... to the obese.
But language matters not a jot to 19-year-old Georgia, from South Wales. She is a teenager lost to overeating and lethargy. And she is terrified.
She is a young woman who has had to suffer the horror and humiliation of having part of her house demolished so that emergency services could winch her out and transfer her to hospital for treatment.
The operation, involving more than 40 firemen, medics and engineers, was denounced almost immediately by indignant commentators as extravagantly expensive, outrageously indulgent of a defiant, lazy, fat girl who just kept on eating.
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/opinio...help-not-blame-1.958965?referrerPath=opinion/
It?s a dirty word now, obesity. We?re supposed to be changing our language ? again ? because the word obese is hurtful... to the obese.
But language matters not a jot to 19-year-old Georgia, from South Wales. She is a teenager lost to overeating and lethargy. And she is terrified.
She is a young woman who has had to suffer the horror and humiliation of having part of her house demolished so that emergency services could winch her out and transfer her to hospital for treatment.
The operation, involving more than 40 firemen, medics and engineers, was denounced almost immediately by indignant commentators as extravagantly expensive, outrageously indulgent of a defiant, lazy, fat girl who just kept on eating.
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/opinio...help-not-blame-1.958965?referrerPath=opinion/
