The man beneath it all: His weight is eating him.

From: The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) | Date: June 3, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Theresa Walker

SANTA ANA, Calif. _ A lens from Patrick Dropp's taped-up eyeglasses fell out one day.

He figured it landed on the floor, maybe bounced under his bed. He had to wait for someone to look for him.

It turned up the next day. Not under his bed, but in it. Beneath the rolls of his stomach. He found it when an aide turned him over.

He never felt it pressing into his skin, for the same reason he couldn't get on the floor a...

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