Gran left living on Skips as she almost starved to death on NHS surgery waiting list

Kathy Allan, 59, was stuck connected an NHS waiting database and survived by eating Skips, arsenic they were the lone nutrient she could support down - she's present had her beingness transformed by captious surgery

A grandma who was erstwhile connected the brink of decease and survived by eating Skips portion stuck connected an NHS waiting database has been saved by life-changing surgery.

Kathy Allan, 59, said she would devour 2 packets of the crisps daily, arsenic they were the lone nutrient she could support down. The gran-of-six from Ayr, southwest Scotland was wasting distant owed to a hiatus hernia, which caused her to suffer 12 chromatic during her achy 16-month hold for a important operation. She had antecedently spoken of her fearfulness that she wouldn't unrecorded to spot Christmas.

In August past year, she pleaded with wellness professionals to instal a feeding conduit to assistance her enactment connected value for the procedure. It had to beryllium carried retired 3 hours distant successful Aberdeen, owed to the deficiency of specializer surgeons successful Ayrshire. Just weeks later, she had the indispensable feeding conduit instrumentality inserted done her nose, allowing captious nutrients to beryllium pumped into her tiny intestine portion she slept.

Her cognition past took spot connected Monday, January 27, with Kathy expanding her value from little than 7 chromatic to a healthier 10 chromatic 11. Now connected the way to afloat recovery, Kathy told the the Daily Record: "I consciousness live again. I'm enjoying life. Before I was little than fractional a person. It was torture. But it's similar a 2nd accidental now. I'm conscionable truthful blessed I tin spot my grandchildren turn up, spell connected holidays and marque the astir of everyday."

Kathy is pursuing a strict repast program which volition yet let her to devour mean foods again. And portion she dreams of savouring a Sunday roast oregon a chippy erstwhile more, determination is 1 nutrient she surely won't beryllium returning to. She joked: "I don't privation different Skip successful my rima arsenic agelong arsenic I live. They kept maine alive, it's inactive brainsick to deliberation that. But I person a emotion hatred narration I person with them. I tried Wotsits and Quavers but the lone crisps that would enactment down were Skips."

"My household inactive upwind maine up offering maine a container but I conscionable can't look it. I'm looking guardant to having due nutrient again. I've got a strict program that I request to instrumentality to. I started disconnected connected wide liquids and present I've moved onto afloat liquids. I tin person tin of crockery but I person to strain it archetypal truthful it is easier to digest. The astonishing happening is that since the cognition I've not been sick astatine all. I americium managing to support everything down."

Kathy has expressed her immense gratitude to the NHS doctors successful Aberdeen for redeeming her from what she feared was definite starvation. She continued: "If it wasn't for Aberdeen accepting my referral. I don't deliberation I would beryllium here. I could consciousness my beingness slipping away. The squad up determination were amazing. I was lone determination for 4 days. I ne'er adjacent felt immoderate symptom aft the surgery. It was an instant relief."

"I person to spell backmost determination for aftercare. It is simply a agelong travel and costs a batch to get up determination and backmost but it has each been worthy it. I look backmost connected my ordeal and I inactive can't rather judge however overmuch I had to suffer. There were truthful galore days I felt similar giving up. Luckily my astonishing girl Samantha ne'er gave up. I americium truthful fortunate to person her and specified a supportive family."