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[4belle]

480-Pound Woman Dies After Six Years On Couch


STUART, Fla. -- A 480-pound Martin County woman has died after emergency workers tried to remove her from the couch where she had remained for about six years.

Gayle Laverne Grinds, 40, died Wednesday, after a failed six-hour effort to dislodge her from the couch in her home. Workers say the home was filthy, and Grinds was too large to get up from the couch to even use the bathroom.

Everyone going inside the home had to wear protective gear. The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.

A preliminary autopsy on the the four-foot, ten-inch woman lists the cause of death as "morbid obesity." But officials want to know more about the circumstances inside the home.

Investigators say Grinds lived with a man named Herman Thomas, who says he tried to take care of her the best he could. He has told them he tried repeatedly to get her up, but simply couldn't. No charges have been filed, but officials are looking into negligence issues.

Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer behind a pickup truck. Removing her from the couch would be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric. After years of staying put, her skin had literally become one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.

She died at Martin Memorial Hospital South, still attached to the couch.

Neighbors say they had no idea Grinds lived at the duplex, though they had seen Thomas and some children outside.

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okay I seriously have a problem with this..nobody ever saw her? and what was his deal ? he couldn't reach out to anyone for help? what is wrong with people? i cannot believe her skin was attached to the couch how awful that she died this way!

[CRASHER]

it's awful but also morbidly funny when they have to dust off the forklift to bring these people out in the process.. it's hard to feel sympathy for them cause they do bring it on themselves at that point ya know

Still kinda sick.. you'd THINK if nothing else they'd get BORED !

[Jayson"Phonics"]

It's not all that unbelievable. Being stuck there so long, she probably developed "bed sores" and not getting them treated made her stick to the couch like that, and those can be rather painful.

[4belle]

what also gets me is that the "signficant other" or whatever you wish to title him as...he had to be the one bringing in her food, he is as responsible for her health and well being as she was...curious if it had be a child of his that this happend to he would be brought up on charges right now

and yes crasher you can look at it and find humor i guess to some degree

[CRASHER]

I'm twisted what can I say ??

but it's like the fat guy who tried to sue mcdonald's ya know.... they only did it to themselves for whatever reason they did....

[shiftypowers]

hahahahaha... i mean, at one point, when u are about 400, wouldnt you see that something is wrong with yourself?

unless she was literally retarded or something like that, i feel absolutely no pitty, and laugh how much of a disgrace she is...

[4belle]

CRASHER said:

I'm twisted what can I say ??

but it's like the fat guy who tried to sue mcdonald's ya know.... they only did it to themselves for whatever reason they did....

i don't think anyone here on the boards would dispute how twisted you actually are!

the money baby!!! i don't think he saw the fat as much as he saw the green $$$$$ ** laughs **