Literature
The Nurse: An Interview of Extremes - Part 1
“Just look at those poor little feet,” Nurse Isabella remarked, gesturing at the wriggling extremities of the enormous test subject that lay before us, “Just look at them; soft, plump, steadily being swallowed up, a little more each day. They're like relics - a reminder of a bygone era - of a time when she could stand, she could walk away. Now long gone, well and truly lost to greed.”
Nurse Isabella continued her tour around Testing Suite 219, and its vast centrepiece of a subject, Bethany, of whom she was extremely proud.
“Bethany joined us about twenty-four months ago,” Isabella enthused, “and was actually part way through the consultancy process to have a gastric band fitted. Can you believe that? What a waste that would have been. Bethany was the kind of girl who had always struggled with her weight, even as a child. By her late teens she had ballooned up to over 350 pounds, and, well, that’s when The Department scouted her. She was actually on the heavy side for a fresh trial