Dr. Now Forced To Cancel 556-lb Patient’s Surgery Last Minute | My 600-Lb Life

I wake up every day to the same miserable experience because my weight has me trapped in this chair all day every day and I hate it. All I can do now is eat and sleep except on the days where I'm forced to take a bath which I really hate doing. Me and my wife Beth live with my mom, my sister, and her fiance Keith and usually it's either my mom or my wife that eventually make me take a bath but I try to avoid it as much as I can. G, you have to get washed up today. Okay. So I'll go in there and I'll get your bucket and get that ready for you. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. But if my family starts to nag me a lot about it I just rather not deal with everyone being upset with me so I just do it maybe once a month. G, your bucket is in there so Beth just needs to get your clothes and your towel and then you're all set to get washed up. Okay. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Gina is very lazy and she doesn't take care of herself. We all struggle with how she is and want her to do better but it's like walking on eggshells to confront her because it starts a fight. Sometimes I start to smell and my family doesn't like it so they force me to get up and do it if it's been a while since the last time I cleaned but it's one of the most miserable experiences in my life now because I don't have a shower or tub I can use. All that's upstairs and I stopped being able to go up there over a year ago. So I bathe downstairs in the half bath sitting on the toilet but without running water I have to use a bucket and a loofah sponge that has a stick to reach all the areas of my body that I need but it's so hard it's a lot for me to do and it's really a painful experience so I just can't do it for long. So when it gets too much for me I just have to stop and go back to my chair because I'm done. It's embarrassing not being able to handle something as basic as taking a bath because I'm too fat and I know how little I can do frustrates Beth because of how much she has to do for me. I'm like a child she has to take care of and I don't even feel like she sees me as her wife anymore. Can you help me get powdered and get dressed? Yes. I put everything that I have into this relationship because Gina's my whole life but it's not the kind of marriage that I want because of the weight that she's at. I want our marriage to be different by her being healthy and it makes me feel angry because I feel like she's she's given up completely. Do you want to start making breakfast? Sure. Okay thank you. I hate that I let it all get to this point but when it comes to food it feels like I have no control. When I wake up I'm starving and I can't wait to eat. Before she goes to work Beth makes us all what we need for breakfast. Eating it makes me feel good, it makes me feel safe, it makes me feel happy. It takes away all my pain and depression so no matter what it's costing me and how much I hate my life I can't stop. I just want more and more and more so I have to have someone constantly bring me more food. Without it I would have nothing in my day to even look forward to. It saves me from everything and it always has. No matter what I've gone through or how bad things got I knew I could always rely on food to get me through it. It's the day of my weight loss surgery and I'm really glad it's finally here. I worked really hard and I waited so long for this and I'm ready to move ahead but doctor now is coming by to do my weight check to see if I hit my goal first so I'm a little nervous about that. Hello. Hello. How y'all doing? I'm good, how are you? Great. So you ready for your surgery? A little nervous. I never had surgery before so I'm really nervous. Well that's normal to be nervous because you're going to surgery, you're not going to picnic. Right, right, that's true. So let's get you up and we'll get you to the scan. At my last appointment three months ago I was down to 543 and doctor now gave me a goal to lose another 50 pounds. So to move ahead I need to be down to 493 today. Alright, 556. So you actually gained some weight and that's not good. No, it's not. Just like really mad at myself right now. Alright, let's go back to your room. Okay. I can't wait. How'd you get away? Well, I already know how. Alright, you started making some progress and moving in the right direction but you show me today that you're not sticking with it like you need. So I'm canceling your surgery and we're not moving ahead with that today. I'm just really mad at myself right now because I've been working so hard. Here's the deal. I'm going to give you one more chance. Okay. But if I'm going to move ahead with you at all then I need to see you lose a good amount of weight over a consistent amount of time. Okay. So you need to lose 75 pounds over the next three months. If you don't do that, you won't be doing the program or getting weight loss surgery from me. You got it? I got it. I understand. Alright, let me get the nurse to take your IV out and we're going to send you home. In the meantime, if you need anything, give me a call. Okay, thank you so much. Alright. We obviously have a very unfortunate situation with Gina. She had a chance to take a big step toward getting healthy today. But we can't move ahead with surgery if she's still gaining weight. So I'm very disappointed in this outcome and her choices right now. When she finally had some weight loss a couple months ago, I was hopeful it was a sign that she was finally starting to turn things around. But this weight gain showed that that is clearly not the case. And that she's still struggling with taking responsibility for what she needs to do. Hopefully she wakes up and does what she needs over the next three months. But at this point, with her track record so far, things don't look positive. But as always, we'll be here waiting to give her the help she needs. If she decides to start making the choices, she has to. I think I'm in shock. I just can't believe this is happening. And I don't know what I'm going to do. And I don't know how this happened. I think this will motivate her to make sure that she gets the surgery for the next time. I just talked to her now and gave her one last chance. And this is hopefully the chance that she takes up on. I don't know how this happened, but I know I have to fix it. The only thing I can figure is that I'm sabotaging myself. So what I want to do is talk to Lola about what's going on with me and try to figure it out. I'm not giving up. I have three months to save my life or lose it all completely. And I can't let myself mess this up again. So I'm going to get back on track and do what I need again.