A mother-of-four 'slowly starved to death over 18 months' after a gastric sleeve operation she had abroad went wrong.
“The water from a pot noodle was all she was eating. She had cramps and pain, and she was throwing up so much her teeth were rotting from the acid in her stomach. She was completely run down and started losing all her hair.
“We didn't know it was going to come to this. We would get a wee bit of hope when she would try to eat some more, but then it would be back to square one again. She couldn't handle solid food at all. It went on for 17 or 18 months,” he told Belfast Live.Risks associated with this type of surgery include difficulty swallowing, vomiting and in rare cases death.
“A sleeve gastrectomy is where a large part of the stomach is removed so it's much smaller than it was before," the NHS website says.Risks associated with this type of surgery include difficulty swallowing, vomitting and in rare cases death.He said that while their three eldest sons are aware of their mother's death, the youngest still doesn't understand.
"I tell him 'mammy is an angel now, living up in the clouds'. I have a photo of her from her hen party with angel wings, so I tell him that's her with her angel wings on now."