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DOCTORS recommended gastric bypass surgery to help 476-pound Jack Gras lose weight, but when they sliced open his over-ample belly they found they had triple the work – because he had three stomachs in there.
Photo: National Institutes of Health.
“No wonder I was always hungry,” Gras, 33, of Omaha, Nebraska, told me exclusively, noting that he has lost 142-pounds, effortlessly, since his surgery.
“I’d eat and eat and eat and never fill up, and everybody thought I was pigging out because I was a glutton.
“Now I’ve been vindicated. I’m not a slob. I’m more like a freak,” he chuckles, “or at least I was until the operation.
“These days, I feel great and I’m losing weight like crazy. Of course, these days I’ve got only one stomach – and even that one’s been surgically bypassed.”
Surgeons were unprepared to remove the baker’s extra stomachs when they went in for the simple bypass they expected, “but we worked quick,” one told me, “and sliced them right out of there.”
After debating whether to leave a single stomach full-sized and intact or perform the bypass by moving the end of his esophagus closer to the beginning of his colon, they decided to “go with the original plan and shorten things up,” the Read the rest of this entry »
