It is helping me do that. I think back to a friend of mine from when I was a teenager. His mother was obese and looking at your photos makes me think she must have had a medical condition like yours. I just spot a lot of similarities.
She was a wonderful mother and really nice person who suffered terribly. So did her two children.
Much of the suffering was externally imposed by society. I feel a lot of pain thinking about that.
All my best wishes and hopes wing their way toward you and your family!