A nearly 800-pound man says a hospital told him that he could no longer stay after he ordered a pizza, NBC 10 reports.
Steven Assanti, 33, lost 20 pounds during his 80-day stay at Rhode Island Hospital as part of a weight loss plan to treat his obesity. But when he was caught cheating on his diet, he says the hospital asked him to leave.
"He needs to be monitored, because if he's on his own. He's going to just blow up because he's uncontrollable when he's by himself cause he's lonely," Assanti’s father, Steve Veillette said to NBC 10.
Assanti's father also told WTVR that he's afraid if Steven comes home, he'll die. "If I do get him up the stairs somehow, some way, he's gonna go right back to his eating habits."
"It's an addiction, and I realize that," said Assanti to NBC 10. "And it's a disease. I was supposed to stay there and lose all my weight and get down to 550 to get the gastric bypass."
The hospital did not comment on the incident, but Veillette, moved his son over to Kent County Hospital on Tuesday night and is trying to arrange for him to stay there through the weekend.
Assanti was reportedly living in his father’s SUV before he was admitted to the hospital, NBC 10 reports.
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