Ever been to an ocean or lake, where you weren’t expecting to go in so you didn’t bring extra clothes? So you roll up your jeans and dip you feet in? Then a wave or boat comes by, and your pants get wet up to your knees?
Imagine how miserable that is. The ocean is salty and the bottom of your jeans get hard and sandy, and a lake bottom is full of slimy rocks and the pants do start to feel dirty and scummy.
Your legs itch, even though you unroll your jeans, and your pants start to feel hard from all the stuff in the water as they dry.
Now imagine it’s all of you, your pants and shirt, underwear, and hair. Wouldn’t you want to just pull it all off you, even if you had to stay wrapped in a towel? And the very first thing you’d do getting home would be to jump in the shower. Putting aside the fact that most would bring swimming clothes and change somewhere.
But nope. She sits there, itching, slimy, dirty and uncomfortable because it’s less uncomfortable than taking a shower and changing.
It’s super hard for me to imagine what it must be like to be in her body and find it hard to shower and change. I mean, why? But I see my 600 lb life and they find it painful, can’t get into a stall, reach anything, can’t get into their fat rolls. And putting on clothes means you can’t reach your feet and have to pull up pants with pinchers and putting shirts overhead is exhausting . Forget washing hair while holding 50 lbs arms up long enough to wash and rinse.
So she sits in filthy stinking clothes. And Becky is her caretaker so why doesn’t she just help?
This is the beginning of the next phase, the bedbound phase. One infection, broken bone or pneumonia will do it. My money is on a mosquito bite causing cellulitis in her lymphedema leg
(I’m sorry as I know people won’t like this, but anybody calling animal control on her is more autistic than she is. There are millions of homeless animals in pounds all over the country, most who are put to sleep daily. A fat dog has it good compared to them and animal control will be annoyed at the lack of insight. Sad but true )