You have not seen obesity at this level. When you first walk in, she's got a blanket covering her. She's got pillows all around her, and so you don't know whether it's pillows, or if it's her. If you reach back -- again, you think that all this is pillows. You make a circle, and that is Mayra!
She can't sit in a chair like you or I do. She can't sit on a couch like you or I do.
What was your last weight? Do you remember? 776 [pounds].
Can you walk? Yes, but I need a chair, like, to lean on, because my knees can't take all my weight.
In my entire clinical career, I've never seen a case like this, and that's the first thing I thought of when I saw her. I thought, 'You belong in the New England Journal [Of Medicine]. You belong in a book of internal medicine.' Mayra has to have ten men to move her. And it takes an extra-wide ambulance. They don't put her on a stretcher; they just slide her in.
Transporting someone her size to the court is going to be a challenge.
I can't say that I've ever seen anybody retain that much water -- probably 600 pounds of water.
The costs of trying Mayra [for capital murder in the death of her two-year-old nephew Eliseo, which Mayra says occurred when she accidentally crushed his skull under her weight] would be enormous.
The paramedics say that they cannot move her without having a doctor on call....
They have to pay $10,000 every time they move her.
Rosales is physically incapable of showing up for court.
The county jail isn't able to house Mayra.
'We need you to roll over and reach the bottom of the bed.' And she starts crying. Because she can't.
'We're going to put you on the floor face-down, and we want you to get up the way that you did on the day in question.' And she cries even more, because she can't, because she can't move.
Eliseo [Sr., the victim's father] made threats to Mayra, that he would burn her in bed, that she would not make it out of the house.
She has now gained additional weight. She can no longer stand, and she can no longer walk. In the past, paramedics would manipulate her body to get her through the door. Now, we're going to have to open up the wall from her bedroom.
Because of her size, Mayra cannot be transported in the ambulance that is provided. Her only option is a moving truck.
I don't have a life, I'm almost dead, and I mean, I don't get scared when they say 'capital murder.' You're dying anyway.
Yes.
This thing says 1028 pounds.
As she's gaining weight, and her physical health deteriorates, her condition was on a spiral downward.
Over the last few months, I'd say she's increased at least...close to 100 pounds. If she doesn't take some drastic measures, I don't know how much longer she's going to be around.
It's hard to live like this, but I have family to live for. Suicide is not an option.
She's retaining a lot of fluid in [the] lower part of her body, and this is the result of lymphedema.
As long as charges remain, Mayra can't leave the county to get the specialized medical help she needs.
I met her at 860 pounds. She had dexterity. But as time went on, she gained weight, and her condition worsened. At 1000 pounds, she can no longer stand up to use the bathroom.
Her skin begins to break. The physical toll that it's taken on the body is just unimaginable.
Mayra will testify against Jamie [Mayra's sister, the victim's mother], and that allows Mayra some closure on her case, and the appropriate medical care.
If Mayra had not been involved in this incident, she probably would not be alive today. As a result of this incident, doctors started going to her house, and people started seeing Mayra and trying to give her treatment. She was on course to die without medical care. Mayra had been bedridden in her house for two years.
I don't want to cry for another baby. I don't want it to happen again.
After numerous surgical procedures, Mayra Rosales has lost 400lbs.
