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She got that way by being epileptic and placed on "Social Services" (Medicare/Medicaid) and was given a seat at the table of "entitlement", that place where money truly does grow on trees (the ones that everyone else has to plant, nurture and pay for that is). As her weight kept climbing, her epileptic medication became less and less stable so she was jumped from one drug to another to try to control, all the while playing the "poor me" card and not doing anything for herself. Currently, she has the mental ability of a pre-teenager and the family has to bail her out of her problems every few months (gets kicked out of houses, trailers, motel room, etc. due to not cleaning them and they become roach infested ... and no, I'm not kidding because we did it again last weekend ... it happens 3 or 4 times per year on average). She's had apartments in the past where she used an extra bedroom for trash because she didn't want to carry the trash out to the dumpster, and continues to used a plugged up toilet because "someone just spilled something on the floor" ... getting the picture of the total mental collapse that happens in an "entitlement" world (we've tried to put her into an assisted living facility but she checks herself out because they "keep all her money" ... we get her into a facility that lets her keep $52 of her $800 SSI check for a $5000/month facility and she walks out).
There may have been more she could have done to try keeping her weight down, but I think you should read up on what epilepsy (and the meds prescribed for it) does to a person's body and mind before judging her too harshly. I have to say though, she'd never be allowed to live on her own in Minnesota if she couldn't take care of herself better than that. If she did, they'd at least have someone helping out with cleaning and personal care (whether you agree with them doing that or not is another story.)