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Article: I'm happy never to eat a meal again; GASTRIC BYPASS.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- June 25, 2002
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Byline: RORY CLEMENTS
MANDY VICKERMAN, 46, a children's entertainer in Leeds, had a gastric bypass and stomach stapling last July for her weight problem, and has since lost more than nine stone.
Here, she talks to RORY CLEMENTS about her operation, and her surgeon, Stephen Pollard, from St James's Hospital, Leeds, explains the procedure.
WHEN I woke up in intensive care after my operation, I felt absolutely awful.
It wasn't pain, exactly - it was just a horrible, horrible feeling.
There were tubes everywhere and I was stapled up, inside and out. I had 200 titanium staples inside me, reducing my stomach to one-fifth of its ...