My son, Cavan Argila, an intellectually disabled Deaf man, begins his twenty-seventh month of conservatorship by the state of California.
At 350 pounds, Cavan is morbidly obese and is on track to develop obesity related conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, chronic kidney disease, and more. Cavan is already displaying stasis dermatitis, a sign of vascular insufficiency. Our family believes that Cavan’s enormous weight gain over a relatively short period of time is due to medications Cavan is being given; medications with metabolic effects.
This is Cavan at 190 pounds, prior to conservatorship.
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