My grandmother is severely overweight, can't walk and will NOT see a doctor.!
Question: My grandmother is severely overweight, can't walk and will NOT see a doctor!. Help!!?
This woman is the biggest hard head ever!. She is severely overweight and just eats constantly!. She can barely walk!. There are problems with her knees and sciatic nerve in her back!. We keep telling her to go to the doctor but she fights us on it!.
How do we get her to see a doctor!? It's getting to the point now where she's going to need to be bed-ridden!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
How do we get her to see a doctor!? It's getting to the point now where she's going to need to be bed-ridden!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
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If she is that bad off, somebody is buying, preparing, and feeding her the food! She obviously is not going shopping if she can barely walk and is near bed-ridden!. Go to her house and clean out all the Twinkies, dough-nuts, etc and have a Dr or nurse practitioner do a home visit!. It is real, but it can be done in situations like your Grandmother! More likely than not though the underlying issue is mental! I am not trying to be mean, it is just that usually when someone becomes that obese it has mental health roots behind it!Www@Answer-Health@Com
You need to talk to her about how dangerous it is it to over-eat!. maybe your grandmother has some eating disorder!? you should FORCE her to the doctor because it is very dangerous!. If she still refuses then maybe go to the doctors without her and explain ALL of what is happening to the doctor and he'll tell you what to do!. you might even want to bring the doctor to your house!Www@Answer-Health@Com
All people who are over weight like to be that way!. If they didn't like it they would not be over weight!. She likes to eat and finds comfort in her eating habits so let her enjoy life the way she sees it!. If she doesn't want to be that way then she will ask for help!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
try to find a nutrition who will go and see her!! Maybe that will be a good start for her, and when she will see helping her is not that bad, and she still can eat, ( just differently of corse!) than she will go to the doctor too!. Thats what I would do!. All the best and good luckWww@Answer-Health@Com
maybe shes depressed!? talk to her nicely and tell her that your scared and its making you very sad to see her like that!. tell her that you will eat healthy with her!. and that you will walk with her!. thats cute how you care about her enough to get her to the doctor!. she will be ok, sometimes people just dont want to!. good luck hunny <3
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WHAT I WOULD DO IS !.!.!.!. IF YOU LIVE WITH HER {spend the night} I WOULD WAIT TILL SHE FALLS ASLEEP AND CALL AN AMBULANCE WHEN THEY SAY WHATS YOUR EMERGENCY I WOULD SAY SHE STOPPED BREATHING WHEN THEY GET THERE IF HER CONDITION IS BAD THEY WILL TAKE HER IN IF HER BLOOD PRESSURE IS UP WHICH I AM SURE IT MIGHT BE THEY WILL TAKE HER AND SHE HAS NO CHOICE SHE WILL SEE A DR!. PLUS IF SHE IS MAD SHE WILL GET OVER ITWww@Answer-Health@Com
You and your family should have an intervention!. Make a video of people who turned their life around when their family told them they were overweight and the people who just ignored the fact!.If that doesn't work try secretly replacing her food with low calorie!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I wouldn't worry,she'll have heart attack soon,and die!.Sorry to be so clinical,but that's how it works!.If she won't diet,what's the point!?If she can still fight you she's lucky(at the moment)!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
You can't make anyone one do anything!.!.!.
Perhaps you can Hire a doctor who does house calls!.
There are some of them around!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Perhaps you can Hire a doctor who does house calls!.
There are some of them around!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
If she can't walk, then she's not getting all that food herself!. Put her on a healthy diet and don't let her eat anything else!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
she may not be able to make this decision on her own if shes really old!. talk to her doctor about it and ask if u can give him consult for treatmentWww@Answer-Health@Com
Get the doctor to come to her!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Stop seeing her!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Stop taking food to her!. Or if you do make is fat free and healthy!. She'll get the point!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Give her healthy choices of food!. only breakfast lunch and tea!. no dessertWww@Answer-Health@Com
show her all these answers including mine:
GO SEE A DOCTOR!!!!Www@Answer-Health@Com
GO SEE A DOCTOR!!!!Www@Answer-Health@Com
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be like if u wanna live then u gotta go to the doctorWww@Answer-Health@Com
I thought you were writing this about ME!. I have gone to the doctor in the past and every ailment I have ever had seems to be the result of being fat!. And of course the only cure for that is to go home and lose weight!. People who are over weight are marginalized by the meidcal community and often real problems are overlooked because of it!. But just the whole experience of going to the doctor, perhaps the waiting room chairs are too small, the nurse looks down her nose at you when she brings you into the back,they put you on a scale and manage to announce your weight to everyone in the area and then take you back to a room and make you sit on the examining couch for 10 minutes to an hour, which is excruciating if you have a back problem!. When you go to xray, the small gown they give you can not be put on, often they have to retake xrays because the tech has not dealt with the extra weight issue by postioning the camera correctly, you know, doing their jobs!. All in all you feel a LOT worse having gone to the doctor than havingnot gone at all!. And of course, if there is nothing wrong, like diabetes or thyroid or any of the "fat" diseases they don't look for anything else, take your money and clear you out!.
I have had problems with my knees for years (I delivered mail for 24 years and injured them time and again) and my back problems began about five years ago!. It is hard to explain to anyone who has not experienced chronic pain how it eats away at you 24/7!. My hair has turned white in the last five years!. I am sure she has probably developed some COPD breathing issues and is probably suffering from congenital heart failure, a couple of weight related issues!. The best I can do is make it to the bathroom and back!. My hope is to die of one of these things before I become bedridden, and if I do become that way I am heading for "the home" as the last thing I want to be is a burden to my children!. I am sure that your grandmother probably feels that way too!.
You have to remember this!. It is her life and her decisions!. The saddest day of MY life was when my daughter started treating me like a child!. Food is a comfort!. I don't suppose you want to provide her with alcohol or drugs or let her smoke!? She is feeling really bad and knowing that she is disappointing all of you is probably making her feel worse!. Can't you just love her the way she is!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
I have had problems with my knees for years (I delivered mail for 24 years and injured them time and again) and my back problems began about five years ago!. It is hard to explain to anyone who has not experienced chronic pain how it eats away at you 24/7!. My hair has turned white in the last five years!. I am sure she has probably developed some COPD breathing issues and is probably suffering from congenital heart failure, a couple of weight related issues!. The best I can do is make it to the bathroom and back!. My hope is to die of one of these things before I become bedridden, and if I do become that way I am heading for "the home" as the last thing I want to be is a burden to my children!. I am sure that your grandmother probably feels that way too!.
You have to remember this!. It is her life and her decisions!. The saddest day of MY life was when my daughter started treating me like a child!. Food is a comfort!. I don't suppose you want to provide her with alcohol or drugs or let her smoke!? She is feeling really bad and knowing that she is disappointing all of you is probably making her feel worse!. Can't you just love her the way she is!?Www@Answer-Health@Com