Trash Can of Skin - Show on Discovery Health

I just watched a fascinating show on the Discovery Health Channel. It's about this British woman who due to a car wreck and a growth hormone problem gained up to 525 pounds and then lost 309 pounds. She lost an average of 12 pounds a month, leaving her with a huge amount of excess skin. She undergoes a radical plastic surgery procedure in Kansas City, Kansas that removes 35 pounds of excess skin and fat. She still has some surgeries left to undergo but when she's done she'll have had 1/3 of her skin removed. The show repeats tonight at 10 pm Central Time.

OMG.. how terrible. How did she look after the surgeries???

She looked much better even though she hadn't reached total recovery. It was a hell of a thing to go through. Lots of pain and by the end of the program time with her the swelling still hadn't totally gone away after six months or so. I hope they do follow up programs with her. She is planning on having surgery to reduce the saggy skin on her thighs also. It said that she wouldn't be done with surgeries until (I think) spring of 2005. If you can catch the next showing of it, I would recommend watching it. There are a few gross-out scenes but you can look away from those and not really miss much.

I just turned the show on now... it just started. All I can say is OMG on the before pictures.... Poor lady.