Another overweight criminal.

[Catty1]

Well, I guess if there are two on top, they'd HAVE to be a "pair a' thyroids".
(ducks to avoid crumpled sheets of paper)

[RICHARD]

Well, I guess if there are two on top, they'd HAVE to be a "pair a' thyroids".
(ducks to avoid crumpled sheets of paper)

LOL, that is one way to remember anatomical stuff...

DUCK!

[Sevaede]

I was under the impression that people with hypothyroidism tend to be underweight and hyperthyroidism leads to being overweight?

[jennielynn1970]

If she's 1000 lbs, and can hardly move, what was the point of putting her on house arrest?? Isn't that kind of redundant?

Where did it say she had some kind of disease that she was in a coma, or is that just pure conjecture? (Candace)

[RICHARD]

I was under the impression that people with hypothyroidism tend to be underweight and hyperthyroidism leads to being overweight?

Hyperthyroidism is the increased function of the gland. It makes more thyroid juice and that increases the MR and keeps a persons weight down.

IT is a little misleading!

[Catty1]

Jenn - from her lawyer:

Valdez has said Mayra Rosales, 27, suffers from myxedema, a thyroid disease that caused her to swell from about 220 pounds to her current bedridden state in only a few years.

[jennielynn1970]

Is this something that could have been controlled and taken care of if she had health care? Does she have adequate health care (or did she)?

What are the odds that she'd be in this position if it had been treated properly when they found she had the thyroid condition?

Many people in this country are limited with their health care because they can't afford it. I wonder if that was part of the initial problem.

Still doesn't change the fact that the child died, and that's just horrible.

Still think the house arrest is redundant. She's 1000 lbs. I doubt she's walking to the neighborhood bodega for a snack.

[RICHARD]

Still think the house arrest is redundant. She's 1000 lbs. I doubt she's walking to the neighborhood bodega for a snack.

I kinda bet she's Mexican and probably would walk to the tienda, not a bodega for a snack. Bodegas are mostly styled after S.A./ Central Am./Caribbean places of business.

THere are a few ways to treat the thyroid condition. The weight is a 'by-product' of it.

One of the problems with living in the 21st century is we have an 'easy' out look when it comes to HC. Before a hernia, gall bladder removal, baby delivery were three, four day hospital stays. I watched those stays shrink to almost 24 hours and in some cases women have a baby in the morning and go home in the afternoon.

Do not be fooled into believing that any disease or condition can be treated in a 48 minute time frame, like on TV. We are lulled into that fast fix because of the media, the strides taken to improve HC and the progress made by the pharmceutical manufacturers.