Jimmy Moore’s Brother Kevin Given One Year To Live

Filed under: Health — jimmy @ 6:40 pm

Are these the final days of my brother Kevin’s life?

My heart is very heavy and saddened today with even more grim news about my only full-blooded brother named Kevin. I just blogged about him two weeks ago with an update on his weight and health, but I received some news this week that doesn’t sound good at all. The doctors have basically given Kevin one year to live. His morbid obesity, despite his recent efforts to bring it under control, has become too much of a burden on his struggling heart and now it’s only a matter of time.

For those readers who haven’t heard about the history behind my brother Kevin’s before, he suffered three straight heart attacks at the age of 32 back in 1999 that nearly killed him primarily from his poor eating habits which ballooned him into morbid obesity. He and I both had struggled with this most of our lives and it was this event that really got me to thinking about my own health and led me to make the necessary changes in my life to prevent this from happening to me, too. Kevin’s heart function got down to 15% and he was told to lose weight or die before the age of 40.

Here are some blog posts about Kevin I have previously written:

“My Brother’s Morbid Obesity Is Killing Him”
“Kevin’s Obesity Saga Hits Too Close To Home”
“So Bad News Really Does Come In Threes”
“Surprising Kevin Perhaps For The Last Time”
“Health Update On Kevin Moore”
“Kevin Finally Getting Serious About His Morbid Obesity”
“Morbid Obesity, Health Problems Continue For Kevin”

Well, today Kevin is 40 (he will turn 41 on August 22nd if he survives that long) and still weighs upwards of 350 or so pounds. He’s been on and off various diets the past few years, including stints on low-carb and most recently his cardiologist’s highly-recommended low-fat, low-salt, low-cholesterol, and HIGH-CARB diet. UGH! It’s disappointing and frustrating to see my own brother, who also has Type 2 diabetes, doing this to himself when his health is already teetering on the brink of disaster. The way he’s currently eating, it’s a death trap just waiting to snatch him from us.

Click here to read more about this sad story about Kevin Moore and how his lifelong battle with obesity will likely rob him of experiencing the full life he was meant to live.