Alan Keogh

Sure, I'd been to every weight loss class.

I'd been to every gym.

I'd tried everything.

I genuinely had tried everything.

I had...

an underlying issue that was only discovered last year.

I had a brain tumour that was pushing on my pituitary gland, which was affecting my thyroid.

Right, which would explain that.

Which would explain the high rise in weight.

And if I hadn't have done the surgery and lost the weight, I wouldn't have been able to get the brain surgery.

So...

It all works out.

Your Instagram and your Facebook just turns into every single ad is pushing you towards gastric sleeve surgery or bariatric surgery over in different countries.

Yeah.

you click on a link and it's like, oh, me, our surgeon, it'll only cost you X amount, we cover your flights, your hotel, your medication for a year, all that kind of stuff.

So you think it's quite a simple procedure and you think, like in my mind,

I thought bariatric surgery was just keyhole surgery like you'd have four holes and it's done and I thought you go over there it's advertised as you go over day one you get two or three tests done day two you're operated on day four you're out of the hospital and you're in a hotel for a couple of days and then you fly home and that's it your life has changed within a week my life did change within a week but it changed in different ways

Yeah, I went to Turkey.

Yeah, I had no concerns.

I didn't think it was that big of a risk.