Hooooo MOMMA!

[GmanJoe]

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1069065283154860.xml?ncounty_cuyahoga

synopsis : By law, this nearly 800 lb woman is disabled and can get modifications done to her public housing apartment to facilitate her big fat self - at no cost to her. But she\'s complaining that the skinny workers are moving too slow for her hungry taste.

I would so love to spank that fat ass with a rowing oar.

In case you are lazy and fat :

CMHA modifies housing for 772-pound tenant

11/17/03

Angela D. Chatman
Plain Dealer Reporter


Carmen Bowen says she leads a busy life.

She has planned and hosted at least two baby showers and even planned her mother\'s retirement party, although she couldn\'t attend.
     
She lives with her 19-year-old son and a caregiver and regularly receives guests, including her two daughters and friends. The warm and personable woman says she doesn\'t feel isolated.

But Bowen is a prisoner - a prisoner in the living room of her public-hous ing apartment on Cleveland\'s East Side be cause the 44-year-old weighs nearly 800 pounds and is immobile.

Under federal law, her condition is a disability, meaning that she can require modifications to her subsidized housing.

The need for such modifications has put her at odds with the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority.

The housing authority is about to meet some of those needs as it accedes to demands from Bowen and her nurse, Virginia Turner, to provide Bowen with an accessible, one-story apartment that will accommodate an oversized electric wheelchair.

For Bowen and Turner, the accommodation has been a long time coming and, they say, not without resistance from the housing authority.

In fact, they are so miffed by what they say was a two-year delay in providing Bowen a safe and accessible unit that civil-rights lawyer Avery Friedman filed a fair-housing complaint on Bowen\'s behalf with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission.

"They have violated her civil rights" by taking so long to address her needs, Turner said.

Local housing officials say they did not violate Bowen\'s rights and that what they are doing to accommodate her goes well beyond what federal law requires, in addition to costing the authority thousands of dollars.

As the Columbus-based commission investigates Bowen\'s complaint, the housing authority is making extensive renovations for her on an already disabled-accessible apartment at Riverside Park on Cleveland\'s West Side.

"Her special condition requires special equipment," acting Executive Director George Phillips said last week, standing in the unit being modified for Bowen. An oversized wheelchair requires more turnaround space, he said.

The apartment\'s modifications include taking out doors and walls, installing an automatic door operator and a panic device, demolishing the existing bathroom and installing a special shower, and putting in a sidewalk leading to a front doorway, something the other Riverside Park units do not have.

In a letter to Bowen on Oct. 22 outlining the modifications, Phillips wrote: "Please note that it is the position of the agency that it is going beyond a reasonable accommodation in making fundamental alterations that are not mandated under the law. However, as a result of and in consideration of your long-standing tenancy and extenuating circumstances, a conscious decision has been made on the part of this administration to do so."

Friedman, disagrees. "The Fair Housing Act has placed this obligation. This has been the law for 15 years," he said.

Bowen, who weighs 772 pounds, could not easily get out of her townhouse at Garden Valley Estates off Kinsman Road.

Drooping fatty tissue from her stomach area extends from her body and prevents her from walking, she and Turner say. She cannot move from a medical bed that sits in the middle of what should be her living room. Turner estimates the growth around her stomach weighs as much as 350 pounds.

For years, Bowen has not been able to move from her bed and do what people consider normal daily functions. Her caregiver must prepare and give her food and even help her sit on a bedpan. She plays video games, listens to music and watches television. She writes poetry to boost her self-esteem.

Things reached a crisis level on Aug. 31, when 22 firefighters and emergency medical technicians had to work for 2½ hours to move Bowen from her apartment so she could see doctors at MetroHealth Medical Center for some dental problems. Emergency crews had to help her back in when she returned.

The doorway to her townhouse was not wide enough for her to get through. The housing authority did not widen the doorway until early October.

But what Turner is really seeking for Bowen is a safe place to live where she can move around. Bowen worries that a fire could occur in vacant units on either side of her and she could be trapped.

"Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity," Turner said.

Turner became Bowen\'s nurse in March through Medicaid. By June, Turner had persuaded Bowen to designate her as her legal advocate.

After submitting applications for a custom-made electric wheelchair for Bowen, Turner turned to finding her a better place to live.

Bowen asked the housing authority for an accessible unit in 2001 and 2002. No one responded. CMHA officials also failed to honor a promise in mid-2002 to move Bowen after fires in the units next to her led them to determine she lived in a dangerous location.

Phillips said the original requests were not passed along because of management changes, and Bowen didn\'t indicate her specific needs in later requests.

Housing officials said they began working on ways to get Bowen from her unit in case of emergency and stepped up security patrols around the apartment in July.

By September, Turner was not pleased with the progression of events, so she forced a meeting with authority officials and even went to a television investigative reporter and Friedman.

She eventually got Phillips to meet Bowen and then the authority began looking for an apartment. On Oct. 27 Bowen accepted the unit in Riverside Park and the modifications on the work began. She could move in next month.

Phillips said the renovation project would have cost about $30,000 had the work gone to bid. He said it is costing less than half that because it is being done by authority employees. But the cost, he said, still is higher than normally required accessibility modifications.

Meanwhile, Bowen does not yet have the wheelchair. Medicaid has not yet said it will pay for it. She will not be able to move around her new apartment until she does. Yet she is ready to move.

In a July letter to her city councilman, Frank Jackson, she wrote: "I need to feel comfortable in my own home, not scared all of the time."

800 pounds??? Just shoot the damn whale.

[Kurt Angle]

That lard ass needs to get some excercise.

WTF 800lbs... that is obscene.  A team of firefighters had to be dispatched to take her to the hospital and home again... I bet taxpayers loved that.  

It is hard to have sympathy for anyone who weighs almost a ton.  Medicaid shouldn\'t pay for the forklift needed so she can get around.  

Then I read she sits around all day watching TV and playing video games...

I am bored to read the whole article but what happens when nature calls?

Also what toilet does she use?It must be the size of a swimming pool!!HUGE POOPS!

Originally posted by Unicron!
I am bored to read the whole article but what happens when nature calls?

Also what toilet does she use?It must be the size of a swimming pool!!HUGE POOPS!

She has a bedpan.  Just imagine the size of those turds... must be hoagie sized :eek:

Maybe there\'s some work she could do from home that would help her pay for some of these special needs herself?  If I was in that situation, I would consider ending my own life instead of sucking off everyone around me.

Oh well, she\'s certainly going to die soon anyway.

Originally posted by Coredweller
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Oh well, she\'s certainly going to die soon anyway. [/B]

So true.

[GmanJoe]

She could feed like 3 families in Ethiopia for a week! :eek:

[Kurt Angle]

Imagine going down on her. :eek:

Originally posted by Kurt Angle
Imagine going down on her. :eek:

You should be banned for posting that.  Seriously, I didn\'t need that image in my mind.  

[GmanJoe]

Originally posted by Kurt Angle
Imagine going down on her. :eek:

You\'d have to grease up and have someone tie a rope to your ankles.....to pull you out. You gotta wade through the thigh blubber....the grease helps....but you may end up shooting straight up into the ceiling.

Believe me....coz I tried to hit it.

Jesus, honestly someone like that its- uhh indescribable.

Wtf is she thinking first of all?

BTW: How would she have friends; after all they would mostlikely leave her aparement with one less limb after visiting.

Come on,

:nopics:

Her brothers and visiters:


Her suicidal brother:


Her rap single:


Bingo night:


Her husband