'Turkish weight loss surgery left me eating through a tube - now husband is my carer but I wouldn't change a thing'

ok.co.uk:

After embarking on various weight-loss journeys, including NHS weight management, Pinky Jolley knew that something needed to change.

At 17st 11lb and a dress size 24, doctors gave her a stark warning. If she didn’t shed the pounds, her life would be at risk.

Following nine long months of research, the 46-year-old decided to take serious action. In November 2022, she headed to Istanbul, Turkey, for a gastric sleeve procedure – but the two-hour operation turned her life upside down. “I chose a professor of bariatrics who’d been practising for over 25 years, but from the moment I woke up from the surgery, I knew something was seriously wrong.They kept telling me to drink more, but I just couldn’t get anything down,” she tells OK!. “Since the operation, I’ve had sepsis four times, plus a blood clot and a hospital-acquired infection that made me resistant to antibiotics, which was all a struggle.

In July, I had a revision from a gastric sleeve to a gastric bypass that was technically a success, but I still can’t eat and I’m being fed via a tube in my stomach now.” But while her experience may be shocking, Pinky isn’t alone.