Pinky Jolley, 45 travelled to Turkey for a gastric sleeve procedure after her weight ballooned to 17st.
A woman has been fighting for her life after a careless gastric sleeve surgery abroad left her stomach feeling 'like concrete', the Liverpool ECHO reports. Pinky Jolley, 45 travelled to Istanbul for the procedure in November where she had 85% of her stomach removed after she ballooned to 17st 11lbs following serious medical complications which left her in a wheelchair.
Just four days later, Pinky arrived back home to Wirral in December 2022 where her GP urged her to visit the hospital immediately. An emergency CT scan at Arrow Park Hospital showed a serious leak in her body after surgery which had led to an infection and essentially turned her internal organs 'to concrete'.
''They totally botched the operation and left my insides so infected they were all hard and like concrete the doctors said. It's been a horrible ordeal I just want to be well again. Looking back it was so cheap that I really should have thought twice but I just got so swept up.'' The 45-year-old spent two days in a Turkish hospital recovering but it wasn't until she returned home that she started to experience intense abdominal pain, vomiting and extreme dehydration. She recalled: "It felt like someone was stabbing my stomach constantly.
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