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Article: GOSH YOU SAVED OUR LIVES; (1)On the 150th anniversary of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, six moving tributes by people whose young lives were saved by this remarkable institution (2)GOOD HEALTH.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 19, 2002
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CHRIS BARRY, 45, runs an education and training consultancy with his wife, Rosemary, 49, and lives in Suffolk. The couple have one daughter, Claire, 21. Chris had pioneering surgery at GOSH at the age of three to separate his oesophagus (the tube which takes food from the mouth to the stomach) from his windpipe. He says: I WAS born with a rare condition where the oesophagus does not meet the stomach.
The condition is known as oesophagael atresia.
Living in Liverpool, I was referred to the Alder Hey children's hospital where they tried eight times without success to carry out a bowel graft - transferring part of my colon on to my oesophagus to make it ...