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Good for her for losing so much weight. Although she never got to a healthy weight and  I will take a huge liberty to assume her death was weight related, it's still very commendable and inspirational that she was able to lose almost half her body size and was able to be mobile again. So sad for someone who worked so hard to combat mental illness to still succumb to its effects.
The WeTV series featured Lopez talking about her weight struggle, including learning to walk again after shedding 400 pounds. She shared that at one point she had weighed 846 pounds.

Holy shit. >

As a paramedic there are some people I go to and just wince. The logistics of getting these people out of their apartments in a timely manner are exhausting and dangerous for patient and practitioner. If they fall in the wrong place it can take hours to get them out. If they fall down dead in the wrong place there is very little anyone can do. >

Don’t you guys ask a bunch of fireman to help? >

I can only speak for the UK but we have special bariatric teams for cases like this. We can call fire out but that's if any structural stuff needs to happen (taking walls, windows out). However, I've had a couple of cardiac arrests where CPR was unsafe and the time to deconstruct the adjoining wall was going to be a long time. So we had to just leave them to die. Sad but these people are way way down a path before we arrive in their moment of crisis. >

Let’s say you guys take down the wall. Who is going to pay for it? Seems a lot of money will be involved just to transport 1 person out!
I really have high respect for you guys. I think in some cases, you guys save a lot more lives than doctors. >

Well that's why fire only come out when that sorta thing happens. Fire pays for it and yeah it is a lot of work. >

In Canada, when paramedics sent someone to hospital, they need to stay with the patient until the hospital/ER take them in. So they could waiting in ER for hours. Is UK the same? >

Canada's methods of prehospital care are very much aligned with the UK and yes, this hospital turnaround time debacle is one of the reasons why paramedics are striking in the UK. In the worst hit areas, crews are handing over to the night crew, only to have the night crew hand the same patient back to the day shift. >

That is upsetting >

I got out of prehospital a few years ago, I saw the way it was going. Plus there were an influx of kids into the roles, some were really good but most had no life experience and were just a pain in the ass "trauma junkies". I left to do my MSc and now happy in a UTC