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Noblesse obese.(Scan)(Brief Article)
For two years, Carmen Bowen, 44, has been fighting the officials providing her with public housing in Cleveland. She has now filed a federal discrimination complaint against the city. Her beef (so to speak): They didn't do enough to accommodate the fact that she weighs 772 pounds. Under current federal law, this qualifies her as disabled.
Bowen's weight has left her completely immobilized. She says fatty tissue drooping from her stomach area, estimated to weigh as much as 350 pounds, extends beyond her body and prevents her from walking. As a result, she didn't move, for years, from her bed in the middle of her apartment's living room--where she lives with her 19-year-old son and a nurse who serves as her Medicaid-provided full-time caregiver (and, now, legal advocate).
The nurse feeds Bowen and puts her on a bedpan. Bowen passes time by playing video games, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Noblesse obese.(Scan)(Brief Article)