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A Post Office Box, perhaps.

I just wish ASS-P could lobby for a permanent place for himself.

I wish he would try to stop being angry over the past, though it's understandable why he is angry. If he can get over his anger, maybe he'll have a better shot at getting a permanent place. Like I said, the anger is justified. But, sometimes, it's not worth it to be angry, even if it's justified.

And...maybe a shave and haircut might be useful, too.

Last edited by kraftiekortie on 08 Jan 2018, 10:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.

...I was just weighed, here, tonight, at the rehab place - And I WEIGH 320 POUNDS!! !! !! !! !! - the hospital sent me back with me having lost absolutely no weight whatsoever !
NOW WHAT AM I GOING TO DO ?

Has the rehab place checked you out yet?

Maybe they need to adjust the water pills.

...The rehab place doesn't, it seems, to be that oriented towards looking for housing.
I don't know what'll happen with the water weight .

You have to do something, man. You're not a well man.

Those people in the rehab place see you as "homeless." Maybe you can find a way to seem less "homeless?"

Yes, there is prejudice against homeless people, as you well know.

I'm not advocating "selling out."

I...My problem is swelling up like a balloon man, like little miniature weights are attached to me .

I can understand your worry.

Have they prescribed diuretics yet?

Perhaps all that indulging on burgers fries noodles ribs cheesecake and the like caused you to gain 10-15 lbs.

You probably need to be on and stay on a strict low fat low sodium diet of about 1500 calories a day for at least a year.

If you continue sneaking out and binging on high fat high sodium food, you will likely keep gaining both fat weight and water weight.

And if you keep breaking rehab, they will probably decide there's no point in keeping you there and cut you loose.

....I went to 320 eating only what they gave me at the hospital - and taking their medication (including what they claimed was enough, but maybe wasn't, diuretics) - these past several days!

I think you went to 320 by recently binge eating burgers fries noodles ribs cheesecake etc.

Being in the hospital for 3 days, isn't going to remove any weight because it takes at least one week (7 days) for the average person to lose just 1 lb on a strict diet.

In other words you can accumulate 5 lbs from 1 of day of indulging on high fat high sodium high calorie food. But it can take at least 5 weeks of strict dieting to lose that 5 lbs.

...My thighs are so swollen, they rub together - and, from between them, my scrotum/gentitalia/balls are so swollen! - They're pushed forward, and, when I go to the toilet, so overexpanded are they, that they get into the water of the toilet Bill, they don't dangle above, they get cold and perhaps dirty in the toilet water . So, for peeling only, I try to stand up - But then I don't spurt out the pre very hard, and too much gets on me/my pants/the floor . At least my balls aren't getting cold then though .

^Good Lord! Can you imagine the visual?

...Yes, RR, I'm being rather...straightforward...about the physical realities of life.







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Whoa, now, EzraS. ASS-P's recent rapid weight gain has nothing to do with caloric intake nor physical activity levels.

Sure, bad habits are how he got himself to whatever his regular baseline weight was several weeks ago - 260lbs, 280lbs - whatever, but his very recent vary rapid ascent to 320lbs has a medical explanation. It's water/fluid retention weight due to his congestive heart failure & other ailments. ASS-P is literally swelling up like a water balloon being filled. Weight loss, from this condition, can be much more rapid than the typical 1-2lbs/week of fat loss via reasonable diet & exercise as certain medications can enable his body to expel the excess fluids. It won't happen instantaneously, but there is the potential with the right medications & timeline to reduce the excess fluid buildup dramatically, and thus the excess weight.

I don't know if that's medically possible for ASS-P at this point, as if it were you'd think they'd have kept him admitted. Maybe they tried and it hasn't worked? It might be that only time can slowly reduce excess fluids. I'm not an expert on the matter. Regardless, with what little I do know about it.. ASS-P's health is.. not good, & his long term prognosis.. also, not good. I do hope that his body works with him and the excess fluid retention levels drop off so that at the very least he's physically more comfortable. Heck, let's go all the way with this one: I hope ALL his ailments improve and he gets to live the rest of his life feeling much better than he does at present!

ASS-P: My only advice to you is to follow medical advice to-a-T. If doctors say "do this, you have to in order to improve your current health situation," then please Do It. If they say rest, Do that. If they say walk/exercise, do that. If they say eat this & don't eat that, Do it. If they say take these meds, Do it. I'M not telling you what to do, I'm merely suggesting that your doctors have dealt with these situations with many patients before and their medical advice is your very best bet.

People with congestive heart failure are not supposed to eat foods high in sodium, specifically because of this problem. Anybody can pack on water weight eating a high-sodium diet, but folks with CHF are particularly at risk and the dangers are more severe.

Dietary choices have consequences. People with extensive health problems combined with poor executive function can very quickly get in a bad way. ASS-P's dietary choices were poorly considered, and I think stating the resultant weight gain is unrelated is a bit disingenuous. Ezra made more than one mention of the high sodium content, and for someone with ASS-P's particular health profile that one's a major red flag.

Can you send me the contact information for the folks back East that have your brothers things? I want to email/phone them myself and ask a few questions about what is or isn't there. It's irritating me now that we don't have this information.

Just in case you may think I have any sort of malicious intent, I do not. Even IF I were an as*hole (I am not) and I told them to burn it all (I wouldn't) they wouldn't be allowed to listen to me in the first place and your brothers stuff will remain just as safely kept as it is now.

If they will provide me with some basic info via email, or even better over the phone, I'll share it here and perhaps we can collectively suggest some real world options as to what can be done with the stuff.

I guess I'll need your name, your brothers name, the lawyers name & contact info/email/phone number etc. Shoot me a PM with this info and I'll make an effort to get the missing information and relay it to the forum and we can continue discussion productively about the bulk of your brothers stuff.