A 900lb man struggling with painful open sores from the friction of his excess skin is forced to urinate in a bucket placed in front of his bed because he is too heavy to stand for more than 30 seconds.
On Wednesday night’s episode of the TLC reality series My 600lb Life, Sean Milliken, 25, from Cameron Park, California, admits that he can’t do anything for himself anymore, including bathe on his own.
‘Every day I wake up I have to face the reality of what my life has become. I am so big now; I can hardly move,’ he says in a preview clip from the episode. ‘All I can do on my own is skooch to the end of my bed, go to the bathroom and see if my mom is awake.’
Sean can be seen using a bar hanging from his ceiling to sit up before he wiggles down to the end of his bed and crouches down to urinate in a blue bucket.
‘I can get up, but I can only walk a few steps, so I just stay here in this bed no matter what,’ he explains. ‘I can’t do anything for myself anymore.’
Sean’s mother Renee tells the cameras that he has to be ‘taken care of from head to toe’.
‘You know, everything has to be done for him,’ she says.
Sean confesses that he only moves when has to because it hurts to much for him to do anything.
When you are very, very fat, your body goes this way but the fat goes another way, and so what happens is you start getting tears in your skin from that,’ she adds.
Sean says his sores can easily get ‘worse’, so it is important that the areas remain clean. However, the bathing process is extremely painful for him – and his mother.
‘He is very difficult to move, and it is very hard for me to lift this large mass on his side and get underneath it and clean properly,’ Renee says.
Meanwhile, Sean says he ‘cannot breathe’ when he has to lean over.
‘It’s such a horrible feeling because my body just can’t handle much, and it is mostly my legs and knees that hurt the most,’ he says.
Sean, who has struggled with his weight most of life, has always been the largest kid in his neighborhood.
In addition to being bullied at school, the trauma of his parent’s divorce left him turning to food for comfort.
Sean knows that he if he doesn’t get his weight under control that he won’t live past 30, and he and his mother travel by van to Houston, Texas, in hopes that he will qualify for weight loss surgery.
‘I am a prisoner,’ he says of his body. ‘All I want is out, and I never really thought my life would end up like this.’
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