Alan Keogh

I thought like if I was to have surgery in Ireland, it was a huge risk.

At my weight, any surgery anywhere is going to be a huge risk.

Like going in to have any anesthetic is a massive risk at that weight.

And when I went to Turkey, the first hospital, even though they knew how big I was, when I got over there, the doctor refused.

And they then, the clinics started to scramble to find a different professor to help.

The surgery went well, but when I got home, it went wrong.

so when i got home and i had a yogurt because that was the next stage that i was to go to from liquid to kind of thick fluid right um so i had a yogurt for a spoonful got an awful pain in my stomach and uh turns out i had burst open all the stitches in my stomach so my stomach was completely open so from my anything that i swallowed just leaked into my abdomen

And it was in a position that couldn't be closed.

So I ended up in Connolly Hospital.

They did a scan, discovered it was the hall was there and transferred me over to Vincent's under the care of Helen.

Yeah.

And then I spent guts of nine, ten months in hospital.

My God.

The hole I had for two years.

I couldn't eat, I couldn't drink.

Nothing went down my mouth.

I couldn't swallow a tablet, couldn't have a glass of water, couldn't do anything.

I was completely peg-fed for two years.

My God, that's horrendous.

Yeah.