Another overweight criminal.

[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.

[Catty1]

There are some forms of myxedema that are not treatable. Or thyroxine meds are tried, but are ineffective.

Could she even afford them at the time?

[jennielynn1970]

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.


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.

Oy, Richard. I wasn't even trying to link it to where she was from, lol. I call the little shop down the block from me a bodega, and it's not from central america or anything. It just this little market. I'll have to remember Tienda, not familiar with that term yet. I think most of our hispanics in this area are Puerto Rica, Cuba, Dominican Rep., and Jamaica (lots of Africans too... as in from the continent).

My thought about the health care was that, did she not have any before she gained all that weight? did she not have access?? Was there no way to treat her till she got to the point where it's almost something terminal?? It's sad.

As for affording them, Candace, if she came here from Mexico, and got papers and all that and got her Medicaid card, she would have been allowed medical treatment. Not sure how much they get, but I know they can get medical treatment when necessary. Just like they get Foodstamps to cover all their kids, their families, and the other 5 kdis they're going to decide to have over the next 4 years so they can stay on foodstamps and get free care.

Don't get me started on that.

[shepgirl]

What does her race have to do with it? We have people born in our own country who live on welfare, housed bu our government, and get foodstamps.Their kids are also taken care of by our tax dollars and so are their house full of pets I might add. So, Mexican, Chinese. Canadian or U.S. citizen has nothing to do with her health or if she did commit a crime...