Obese woman referred to zoo for X-ray

[sa_butta]

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1406475.html?menu=

A 29 year old New York woman says she was humiliated when she was told to go to a zoo for an x-ray.
Jennifer Walters is bed-ridden and cannot fit into a magnetic resonance imaging machine.

She told the New York Post that a doctor said she should go instead to the Bronx Zoo for an x-ray.

"It's humiliating. I was told if elephants and hippos need MRIs, they have the equipment at the Bronx Zoo. It was like I was an animal," she said.

New York politicians recently called for an end to what they termed medical discrimination against obese people.

The Bronx Zoo told the Post it gets about a dozen such calls a year but it doesn't have such facilities for its animals.

Couldnt resist this one.
How mean is that?

[Clandestino]

don't the context, but i doubt the doctor meant it in a mean way.

[Spurminator]

:lmao

Part of me thinks it's mean, part of me thinks it's hilarious, and the rest of me thinks, "Well? Do you want an x-ray or not?"

[Useruser666]

I bet her HMO doesn't cover the ticket to get in the zoo.

[sa_butta]

yeah how do you claim that with your insurance?
or would you get a bill from the zoo.
maybe she has elephantiasis...:lol

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

New York politicians recently called for an end to what they termed medical discrimination against obese people.

If you don't fit in the MRI machine, you don't fit. I'm not sure why that's being called discrimination. My guess is that she won't fit into a Corvette either. Is General Motors discriminating against her now?

And the hole in the MRI machine is pretty darn big to start with. This lady must be really gigantic, poor thing.

[Jimcs50]

I guess Chopper, Shelly and SW need to go to the SA zoo for xrays I guess, judging from their pictures that they have posted of each other.

[SpursWoman]

I guess Chopper, Shelly and SW need to go to the SA zoo for xrays I guess, judging from their pictures that they have posted of each other.


The trip quit being worth it ... now that they've stopped the elephant rides, I can't earn my money back for the necessary exams and a cotton candy.



I bet her HMO doesn't cover the ticket to get in the zoo.

That's why I switched to a PPO. :fro

[ShoogarBear]

Most CT and MRI equipment have weight limits of ~300 pounds.

I have heard (but can't confirm) that morbidly obese people have been referred to zoo facilities when there's no other option.

What I want to know is what to they do with NFL linemen or Shaq?

[rl64tx]

I guess Chopper, Shelly and SW need to go to the SA zoo for xrays I guess, judging from their pictures that they have posted of each other.

No Joke there's some "big" peeps in those GTG pics!!! Should they really be going to pizza place??? Damn, kick in a workout or 2 :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

[Shelly]

No Joke there's some "big" peeps in those GTG pics!!! Should they really be going to pizza place??? Damn, kick in a workout or 2 :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

:cry

[Clandestino]

No Joke there's some "big" peeps in those GTG pics!!! Should they really be going to pizza place??? Damn, kick in a workout or 2 :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

haha... crazy fucker! :lol

[atlfan25]

what, they don't have open mri's in new york? please. if they have them here they do in new york. and why does the article use mri and x-ray like they are the same.

[SpursWoman]

No Joke there's some "big" peeps in those GTG pics!!! Should they really be going to pizza place??? Damn, kick in a workout or 2 :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Who are you to be criticising anyone? Let's see what you look like...both of you. :)

[SpursWoman]

In case you missed it....here's me & Shelly from a few GTG's ago..... :smokin


http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2004410292,00.jpg

[Lady Marmalade]

am i horrible to say i lol when i read the title???

[SpursWoman]

yes and no. :lol :lol



If I were referred to the zoo for x-rays, I'd probably take that as a cue that there's a problem.

[atlfan25]

you can't be too big for an x-ray, that's why this article is moronic, and if they sent her too a zoo for an mri, she had to be over 500 lbs(the approx. limit for open mri's)

[Shelly]

I did have to go to the zoo to get those ZZZs weighed...

[SpursWoman]

you can't be too big for an x-ray, that's why this article is moronic, and if they sent her too a zoo for an mri, she had to be over 500 lbs(the approx. limit for open mri's)


That's what I was thinking (about the open MRI's)....she has to be an extremely big person....at least to the degree that she shouldn't have been surprised or in denial at this point. If you can't fit into an MRI, there's lots of other things you can't fit in either.

[atlfan25]

That's what I was thinking (about the open MRI's)....she has to be an extremely big person....at least to the degree that she shouldn't have been surprised or in denial at this point. If you can't fit into an MRI, there's lots of other things you can't fit in either.
:lol thats a good point, it shoudln't have been much a surprise at all to her. i'd sure like to see that mri machine they have at the zoo tho, if it can fit elephants :wow

[ShoogarBear]

Could have been worse. They could have referred her to the zoo for her Pap smear.

[SpursWoman]

:vomit :vomit

[1369]

Could have been worse. They could have referred her to the zoo for her Pap smear.

As I'm not of the female persuasion and have never needed one, with someone that large (too big to fit in a conventional MRI machine), I'd venture a guess that they need a mop instead of the normal swab to get the sample?

[atlfan25]

ahhhhhhh^^^^^^^^^^horrible mental image

[Useruser666]

Could they take her to a border crossing and use one of those truck x-ray machines?

Doc: You're going to have to go to the zoo for the X-ray.

Woman: How rude of you to suggest something.

Doc: I'm sorry it's the only way.

Woman: I'm not going that's insulting!

Doc: It's the only way we can help you.

Woman: Well ok, if it's the only way.

Doc: Glad you changed your mind, now here is the flat bed truck to take you to the zoo.

:lol

[Gatita]

As I'm not of the female persuasion and have never needed one, with someone that large (too big to fit in a conventional MRI machine), I'd venture a guess that they need a mop instead of the normal swab to get the sample?

That was just plain :vomit

:lol

[Gatita]

yeah how do you claim that with your insurance?
or would you get a bill from the zoo.
maybe she has elephantiasis...:lol

Swollen balls... the woman?? :lol

[Gatita]

No Joke there's some "big" peeps in those GTG pics!!! Should they really be going to pizza place??? Damn, kick in a workout or 2 :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Didn't you know the camera adds about ten pounds?! :lol

[SpursWoman]

As I'm not of the female persuasion and have never needed one, with someone that large (too big to fit in a conventional MRI machine), I'd venture a guess that they need a mop instead of the normal swab to get the sample?



Oh, sweet Jesus.... :wow :vomit :lol

[Shelly]

As I'm not of the female persuasion and have never needed one, with someone that large (too big to fit in a conventional MRI machine), I'd venture a guess that they need a mop instead of the normal swab to get the sample?


ooooooh!

:lmao

and ew!

[1369]

Well, I was going to say something about a spreader bar and a 200 ton crane in lieu of stirrups, but I thought that might be going too far...

[Gatita]

Well, I was going to say something about a spreader bar and a 200 ton crane in lieu of stirrups, but I thought that might be going too far...

Just a skootch! :lol

[SpursWoman]

Just a skootch! :lol




Oh, man....I thought about that when I'd read his reply! :wow :lmao

[Gatita]

Oh, man....I thought about that when I'd read his reply! :wow :lmao

Great minds think alike. http://www.improvingsex.com/smileys/hippy.gif

[Useruser666]

Sounds like a job for cavers.

[SpursWoman]

Sounds like a job for cavers.


spelunking? :wow

[Clandestino]

Guy #1: "You momma so fat, that when she needed an x-ray she had to wait in line between a rhino and an elephant at the zoo!"

Guy #2: "Yeah.....so?"

:lmao :lol