28 minutes ago, islandgal140 said:
I couldn't even at the diagnosis of chronic heart failure was treated like something episodic. It is not like an appendix that you go on have treated and removed and you go off and live your life as before. I should know, my dad was diagnosed suddenly and to our surprise February 2016. His life has never been the same, but he is still with us and doing fair to okay. He actually lost close to 60 lbs and is at his ideal weight. Still, he is on medications and most importantly he has to watch his salt intake and be on the lookout for edema. So it kills me to see James eating salt laden Chinese food like it was nothing.
IKR?!? In 2006 my dad had open heart surgery to replace his ruptured mitral valve and a few months later he developed amiodarone toxicity from his heart medication. It severely damaged his lungs to the point that he was in a medically induced coma for a few weeks,and was ventilator dependent for 3 months afterwards. He was eventually weaned off the vent, despite being told he would be on the vent for life. For the remainder of his life he had problems with pneumonia and edema. He had to weigh himself every single morning and if he gained more than 5 lbs in a day he would have to be hospitalized until the edema was gone. He was on a strict salt free diet - even low sodium products were forbidden. My mom had to make everything from scratch so as to avoid sodium. Four months before he died we took our last family vacation to Disney World. They were awesome taking care of my dad's specialized diet, the chefs would come out to speak with him re his dietary restrictions, even going so far as to grilling his chicken in a different restaurant's grill so as to avoid salt contamination. But James has a giant salt/MSG laden Chinese food meal mere hours after being discharged from the hospital for CHF!!!
Some questions I have after viewing, that haven't been answered or addressed by the awesome posts here:
1. How could he not be under a doctor's care, given his many medical problems? He was catheterized, permanently. He had a severe case of cellulitis. He had an entire shelf full of prescription bottles in some of the scenes filmed in KY.
2. How can the catheter even be inserted, given that he can't spread his legs any further? In one of the gofundme pages linked upthread, there's a picture of him with the catheter snaking out from between his thighs. I'm surprised that the catheter doesn't get permanently closed off from the weight of the fat of his legs.
3. There is something severely wrong with the color of his urine. It's brown! I suspect it's due to dehydration or blood in the urine - either way a serious problem that wasn't explained.
4. Lisa had to have been sneaking food to him in the hospital. How could someone of that size lose barely 50 lbs while confined to a hospital, on a medically supervised 1200 calorie (and later 800 calorie) diet? Dr. Now always tells his patients that if they stick to the diet they should loose 100 lbs in a month. I realize that James is FAR less mobile than the other participants we normally see, but still.
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