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'My Turkish weight loss surgery left me eating through a tube and now husband is my carer - but I wouldn't change a thing'


EXCLUSIVE: Pinky Jolley flew to Turkey to have a gastric sleeve procedure. Sadly, she contracted sepsis and found to her horror that her stomach had been twisted during the surgery

Pinky Jolley underwent a gastric sleeve procedure in Turkey in November 2022 (Image: Instagram / pinkyjolley)“Since the operation, I’ve had sepsis four times, plus a blood clot and a hospital-acquired infection that made me resistant to antibiotics, which was all a struggle. These days, the only food she can eat is thin soup in extremely small quantities, and she’s “had therapy and plenty of breakdowns” in the 21 months that have followed her trip to Turkey. Pinky says that life is "even more limiting" for her now (Image: Instagram / pinkyjolley)“It really does stress my husband Paul seeing me in so much pain and just the shocking things I’ve been through – and he’s a qualified nurse.

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