Beached

I have seen what a 600 and a 800 pound person looks like. Nursing will soon have a field called Bariatric Nursing. I need to be out of this career by then or I will have no back. When a 600 lb person shifts their weight as you move them, it could easily be game over for a nurse's back, and thus a nurse's career. It is crazy how in most of the world people are dying of starvation but in the US and Canada people are dying from excess. As the elderly life long smokers die off in the hospitals (and less people are smoking today than years ago) they will be replaced I think with a new generation of morbidly obese. We are just trading places.