이렇게 넓은,행복한 세상

Manuel Uribe sits on his bed at home in Monterrey, Mexico in a January 17, 2006

file photo. Uribe, who at 550 kilograms (1,212 pounds) is possibly the heaviest person

in the world, hopes to travel to Italy for a life-saving operation to shed weight. REUTERS/Luis Reyes

멕시코인 40살의 이 남자 과거 5년 동안 혼자 힘으러 일어서본적이 없다고 한다.

10년전 그의 체중이 불어나는 것을 보고 그의 부인은 그를 버리고 도망 갔다고 한다.

그의 심장 햘압 당도 모든 것은 지극히 정상이며 체중으로 인해 호흡에 곤란이 있을

정도라하며 150kg가 정상이라네요. 지금 그의 체중은 550kg. 기네스에 오른 최고 체중은

미국 시애틀에서 635kg에 죽은 40대 남자라는 군요. 이 멕시코 남자는 특별기편으로

이태리로 수술을 가는데수술은 4~5시간이 소요될 것이며 인공 장기를 넣어 칼로리가 몸에

흡수되 않도록 한다는군요. 이제 몇 시간만 지나면 여왕계절의 임금연휴가시작된다.

아 가슴이 확 ~~

Half-tonne man seeks life-saving surgery

By Phil Stewart Wed May 3, 9:17 AM ET

ROME (Reuters) - A Mexican man who at 550 kg is possibly the heaviest person in the world

hopes to travel to Italy for a life-saving operation to shed weight.

Manuel Uribe, bedridden for the past five years, cannot stand on his own and will need a special flight to take him

from Monterrey, Mexico to Modena, where a surgical team has offered to perform an intestinal bypass free of charge.

"I can't walk. I'm can't leave my bed," the 40-year-old Uribe, who weighs the same as five baby elephants, said in a

recent telephone interview.

"I'm trying to reduce my weight a bit right now so I can be in the right condition for the operation."

Uribe made an impassioned plea for help earlier this year on Mexican television, saying he weighed a more normal

130 kg until aged 22 and did not know what happened to him. The broadcast drew the attention of doctor Giancarlo

De Bernardinis, who visited Mexico with a medical team to examine Uribe in March.

Bernardinis, whose biggest patient to date weighed 350 kg, told Reuters he plans a gall bladder, intestinal bypass

procedure that will allow Uribe to pass food more quickly without so many calories being absorbed.

Bernardinis planned to perform the surgery in Modena as early as this month, although a Mexican health official

doubted Uribe would be ready for a trip to Europe that quickly.

MEDICAL MYSTERY

Uribe's case puzzles doctors since his cholesterol and blood-sugar levels are normal, despite his extreme obesity.

"His heart works very well. He has some respiratory difficulty because of his obesity, but in strict terms, he's well,"

said Marco Anibal Rodriguez Vargas, the director of hospitals in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon.

Rodriguez Vargas said Mexican hospitals still hoped to treat Uribe themselves, but added Uribe would ultimately decide

what to do. Uribe said it was just a matter of time before he went to Italy: "Are we going? Yes. We're going.

But the doctors will decide when." The operation would last four to five hours and would likely require Uribe to spend

one month in Italy. "He will always be heavier than normal but certainly not like he is now ... We would be satisfied

even if he weighed 150 kg after two years," Bernardinis said.

No one has managed to find suitable scales for Uribe in years and estimates of his weight are made partly by

tape-measure. Guinness World Records 2006 only said it was aware of living people weighing over 508 kg.

The record for the heaviest man ever is held by Jon Brower Minnoch, who died in Seattle in 1983 after reaching

a record 635 kg. He was in his early 40s. Uribe hopes to avoid that fate. His wife, horrified by his increasing size,

feared the worst and abandoned him more than a decade ago. "She left me because she must have thought I was dying," Uribe said. Thank God, I'm still alive and hopefully will be able to take care of this problem."