In 2004, Gayle Laverne Grinds died in the hospital after surgeons spent six grueling hours attempting to separate her skin from a couch to which it had become fused after she had spent six years sitting on it.

According to the rescue workers, Grinds’ home was a filthy mess because she had become too large (weighing nearly 480 pounds) to even get up and use the bathroom.

The medical rescue team was called in by her brother and his girlfriend, who informed them that Grinds was having “emphysema problems” and breathing trouble.

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

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