At work one day, IT consultant Justin Shelton suddenly began to feel ill. A few hours later, he was in the emergency room, and doctors told him he might have a kidney infection.
They just needed to run a scan to confirm the diagnosis.
The next words were a cold reality check: The imaging machine could not support his weight.
“They told me, ‘We think you have a kidney infection, but we can’t confirm for sure, so we’re just going to treat it aggressively and hope that’s what it is,’ ” Shelton said.
He was 25 years old and weighed 592 pounds.
Source: CNN
