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900-lb. man hospitalizedSEATTLE (AP) — Jon Minnoch was so weak from a vegetables-only diet that he could not budge from bed. It took a dozen firefighters and an improvised plywood stretcher to move the 900-pound man into another bed — in a hospital.The 36-year-old Minnoch had been lying on his side, practically immobile, for about three weeks, said Louie Marker, a friend living with the Minnoch family. Marker said Minnoch had injured his foot and, after spending a few days in bed, found it impossible to get up.Minnoch, covered with painful bedsores, finally consented to pleas from his wife that he enter a hospital. He was reported in fair condition Wednesday, undergoing treatment for complications related to obesity, a University Hospital spokeswoman said.’ Jean Minnoch said her husband had become so weak from his 600-calorie-a-day diet, prescribed by a doctor, that he had been unable to work at his job as owner of a taxi cab company.“My husband has tried to diet before,” said Mrs. Minnoch, who weighs 110 pounds. “He was determined tjjis time to make It work. It got to the point where he just couldn’t get out of bed.”Marker said the 5-foot-10 Minnoch had “always been heavy,” weighing more than 300 pounds when the friends first met about 16 years ago and gaining weight over the years.Firefighters arrived at Minnoch’s home on Bainbridge Island at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday and maneuvered him onto a three-quarter-inch sheet of plywood measuring four feet by eight feet. A five-foot window in his first floor bedroom was removed because the doorways were too narrow, said Hugh Maguire, public relations officer for the Seattle Fire Department.Planking from the bed was placed under the plywood to lift it to window level and then down to the waiting aid car, Maguire said.
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