Sara Platt had an operation in Turkey in 2021 to reduce the size of her stomach. She lost 12 stone but was left with excess skin that she said rubbed together, causing sores and an unpleasant smell. The 33-year-old spent a year researching her options and visited a Turkish clinic before choosing which company to go with.
In February 2023, Sara flew over to have the skin removed as well as a breast lift and implants. But as soon as she woke up from the procedure, she felt something was wrong. “I remember coming round and my Dad being by the side of me and saying, ‘you need to breathe Sara, you need to breathe’,” she said, “There were loads of nurses around me and I was like ‘kill me, tell them to kill me, Dad, you need to tell them to kill me.
I can’t do this, you need to tell them’.” “I’d never experienced this..
.I wanted to die. I couldn’t deal with this pain.
“I remember realising that my breast, after an hour of coming around, my breast was purple. It was totally purple.” Nine days after her surgery, Sara was feeling seriously ill.
She decided to ask her husband to help remove her bandages in the hotel bathroom. She explained: “As he was undoing it, all this brown liquid started seeping out of my body. I screamed.
I felt like I was falling apart. It was like, oh my god, my insides are gonna come out. “It’s not a health holiday.
They told me I’d be sitting by the pool within three days. I was rotting in a hotel room.” Sara’s dream of .