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And decided that it was time for the neighbor across the street to leave this life. Apparently, Tuesday evening he had a cardiac episode. I had come downstairs to get some ice and saw the flashing glow from the squad lights on the wall. I didn't want to watch - I had a feeling that the squad was there for him & not his wife or stepson - but I couldn't help it, I wanted to see how many rescue workers it took to get him out of the house.
You see, the neighbor across the street was a rather huge man. I swear he topped the scales at 500-550 lbs. (he had not always been that size, I remember when they were neighbors of ours when I was younger and he was barely 180lbs.) It took 7 rescue workers to remove him from the house. Yes, that is very sad. It is also somewhat pathetic - as this man had gained all of that weight over the span of a year or so becasue he foudn out that if he weighed 300 lbs or more he could collect disability!
I know it sounds horrible, but he chose to do that just so he wouldn't have to work everyday like the rest of us, and in doing so, he cut his life short - one of his grandkids told us that he was only 53.
Your heart is only about as big as your fist and is not meant to be overworked like that, by carrying around so much extra weight. We were actually suprised that he hadn't died sooner.
The point is, why endanger your health just to get free money from the government? It doesn't make any sense. It never has. (He had come from one of those families that made welfare a career and if they couldn't qualify for welfare, they found a way to get disability - sad, very sad.)
I understand that some weight problems are genetic and harder to manage than others, but I honestly believe that we each make the choice whether to accept things like they are or to try and change them. I, have never been willing to accept the idea that I am about 40 lbs overweight - I have been and continue to do whatever I can to get my weight down and keep it down. It doesn't sound like much, but almost 6 months ago, I was about 10lbs away from weighing in at 200 lbs. I'm only 5' tall and there was no way in hell I was going to hit 200. I cut way down on a lot of garbage that I ate & the amount of soda that I drank a day, and getting the factory job helped as well, but I've lost almost 35 lbs. I am planning to be back down to 115-120lbs by the first of the year.
Here's what some large people fail to realize (in my opinion): Just because you are a large person and or oeverweight, you do NOT need to eat like a hog! Stop and think about it - those extra slices of pizza, extra 2 liters of soda, the extra Big Macs & fries - all of that stuff helped to get you where you are - nastily overweight & probably with some unkown health issues. It really is not that difficult to cut down on the calories you take in everyday.
*I said this because when I worked in fast food, I saw a family of obese people - the children were maybe 7 & 5 - come in one evening and ordered enough food to feed 3 families. The children ate just as much as the parents did. And of course I had seen other large people eat like that. Hell, I worked with one woman a couple of years ago, she was overweight and always complaining about how she wanted to lose weight, yet when we order lunch, she would overeat every single time. *
I don't know who the neighbor on the left is going to argue with now, I do know that he was saying how sorry he was that the guy across the street died.
My condolences go out to this man's family - I also know that his wife and stepson are going to know peace now, they no longer will have him yelling and screaming at them to get this or get that.
