03-09-2006, 07:47 AM
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Crazy
Location: buckle of the snow belt
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He's lost himself...
...or at the least someone!...
Way to go! 
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Mar 9, 8:48 AM EST
Man Who Weighed 1,000 Pounds Down to 400
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Patrick Deuel, who once weighed more than 1,000 pounds, has lost another 81 pounds in a surgery that removed a mass of fat and skin hanging from his midsection.
"He's doing well," said Dr. Fred Harris, who performed the surgery Tuesday.
The mass, called a pannus, made it difficult for Deuel, 43, of Valentine, Neb., to walk.
Surgery to remove it had been scheduled for January, but the procedure was postponed when Deuel got the flu.
With the surgery, Deuel now weighs about 400 pounds.
He could lose even more through exercise, said Harris.
"But if Patrick never lost another pound, I'd be a happy camper," Harris said.
When Deuel came to Sioux Falls for gastric bypass surgery in 2004, he weighed 1,072 pounds.
He was so large his bedroom wall had to be cut out to extract him from his home. He was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance with extra-wide doors and a ramp-and-winch system that had to be dispatched from Denver.
Gastric bypass surgery, a stomach stapling procedure, was thought to be his best chance for permanent weight loss.
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Information from: Argus Leader, http://www.argusleader.com
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