Indebted to the woman whose story I read in that magazine. Having the operation almost certainly saved my life.
What matters is that food no longer rules my life. I've started a post-graduateĬourse in teaching which is something I'd never have had the BuyingĮach new, smaller size felt like a triumph. I had to completely overhaul my wardrobe. Within four weeks I'd shed two stone, then I lost a stone a Shop without going in was a little victory. Mum looked after me for theįirst month, then I had to cope alone. Within a few days I was walking and drinking normally and allowed I didn't think about food - all I craved was water. Given fluid intravenously and only allowed to dampen my lips with A morphine drip was attached to myĪrm, so I didn't feel too much pain. Sort of operation is risky when you're as overweight as I was. It would take three hours,ĭuring which my gall bladder would be removed, my stomach stapled andĪs I waited for the anaesthetic to take hold, I looked at my sisterĪnd truly believed it was the last time I'd see her. Surgeon Stephen Pollard at the Bupa Hospital. My operation was to be performed by pioneering Five months later, I was on a train to Leeds with my The NHS wouldn't pay, so I remortgaged my house to pay the
The operation didn't just shrink the stomach, it reduced theĪmount of calories the body could absorb and created food aversion. Stomach pouch using staples, then designed a new way for food to beĭigested by bypassing part of the intestinal tract. Undergone a Roux en Y gastric bypass operation which created a new Who'd had a radical form of weight-loss surgery. I was ready to give up when I saw an article about a woman Asthma, high blood pressureĪnd the mental stranglehold of obesity were making life unbearable. Nothing worked.Īt 30, I'd reached rock bottom. I tried to diet several times - meal replacement drinks, faddyĮating plans and sensible ones, such as Weight Watchers. Each humiliation drove me back to the only comfort I knew: Overheard one of my sister's boyfriends comparing us to beauty and And it wasn't just theĮmotional cost which was high - in my final year at university I spent Today, I weigh 101/2 stone and wearĪll my life I had been overweight. Ten months ago I had a gastric bypass which changed my life. That's because I have a stomach severely restricted in sizeĪnd an intestinal loop which provides a new way for food to reach my It means I've finished the small portion of pasta on my Too much doesn't mean I've had a huge dinner, followed byĭessert, chocolates and nibbles, as it might have done this time last I'M feeling light-headed and bloated - I know this means Now, the married mum of two from Kent weighs just 101 stone. Slimming clubs and trendy diets didn't work, so in the end she resorted to having her stomach stapled.
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