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Originally Posted by Big Jim Slade 
"What about the Twinkie?"
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There was some other thread a ways back about getting the morbidly obese out of their house via knocking down walls, cranes, etc. I put the story there; went looking to link it but seems it was lost in the Forum Purge.
So like I said, my buddy was a paramedic during med school (actually, while premed I think), and I make him drag this story out whenever there's someone who hasn't heard it.
His crew answered a call from a morbidly obese man complaining about chest pains. When they arrive they determine he isn't into arrest, but ought to be taken to the hospital for closer observation. (And, of course, he's in a third-floor apartment with no elevator. "They always are. Always." Which is how this was apropos to the other thread.)
They get him to the emergency room, and my friend is assisting the nurses with getting him onto two beds secured together, and manipulating the massive folds of his body so as to remove his shirt and apply the various pads and monitors where they can best sense their respective organs.
Upon lifting one shelf of flesh, most of a flattened Twinkie rolls out onto the paper bed sheet.
My friend and the nurses all sort of freeze and go quiet for a second, trying to both take in what just happened and, being professionals, not to react improperly. The patient, sensing something just happened, props up on his elbows a little and follows their eyes. "What?" He sees the partially eaten Twinkie. "Oh. ...Oh, right." And he settles back onto the bed.
And that's the Twinkie story.
In hindsight, I should've ended the previous story with, "And so, children, that's where fat babies come from."
But I should also add that, once gotten over the initial ick that always comes with visualizing unattractive people fucking, I think that story was kind of sweet. Here's two people overcoming their obstacles to achieve a mutually satisfying sex life. That their obstacles are their own fault doesn't make them any less deserving, in my opinion. My pal did counsel them on their weight, and though it's been a long time since they were his patients he did say at the time he told me the tale they were not just an extremely happy couple, very much in love, but making some progress in reducing, too, as a team. One of their big incentives being increased intimacy, naturally. But at the time, they were doing what they could with what they had.
And this is the point in the anecdote where I try to pitch taking a crack at the position for novelty's sake. Haven't had a taker, yet.