3 weeks ago
A man pinch a monolithic hernia which makes him look pregnant faces a near two-year hold for room to region it.
Paul Milham's 17.5cm wide – astir nan size of a bowling shot – has near him successful agony.
The 45-year-old, who lives successful Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, besides says nan hernia makes him 'look for illustration a freak'.
Despite being hopeless for an extremity to his pain, NHS doctors person allegedly placed him connected a 86-week waiting database for an cognition to free him of nan mass.
To get nan op sooner, Mr Milham claims he would request to salary arsenic overmuch arsenic £50,000 privately.
Paul Milham, 45, first spotted nan hernia successful June past year, 2 months aft undergoing emergency room connected his colon to dainty diverticular disease
The therapist said he's been placed connected an 86-week waiting database to region nan hernia contempt hopeless pleas to aesculapian professionals to execute nan cognition sooner
He said: 'I consciousness very sad and angry astir this.
'I'm moving much hours than ever earlier to effort and raise nan money. I cognize group are trying their champion but this is my life.
'I request to get connected nan operating array arsenic soon arsenic imaginable to prevention my life.'
Hernias — erstwhile an soul portion of nan assemblage pushes done a weakness successful musculus aliases insubstantial — aren't usually dangerous.
In utmost cases, they tin lead to life-threatening complications.
WHAT IS A HERNIA?
A hernia is simply a communal problem that occurs erstwhile an soul portion of nan assemblage pushes though a weakness successful nan musculus aliases surrounding insubstantial wall.
It tin create betwixt your thorax and your hips and causes a swelling aliases a lump successful your abdomen aliases groin and successful galore cases room is required.
You should spot a GP if you deliberation you person a hernia.
If you create nan pursuing symptoms you should spell to A&E:
- Sudden, terrible pain
- Being sick
- Difficulty pooing aliases passing wind
- The hernia becomes patient aliases tender, aliases cannot beryllium pushed backmost in
These symptoms could mean that either:
- The humor proviso to a conception of organ aliases insubstantial trapped successful nan hernia has go trim disconnected (strangulation)
- A portion of bowel has entered nan hernia and go blocked (obstruction)
A strangulated hernia and obstructed bowel are aesculapian emergencies and request to beryllium treated arsenic soon arsenic possible.
Source: NHS
Mr Milham, a hypnotherapist, said: 'If this can't beryllium repaired, I don't judge my assemblage tin unrecorded into aged property successful nan authorities that it's in.
'It doesn't mean that I'm going to dice instantly but it does consciousness for illustration it's life-saving now.
'I conscionable want to get backmost to my life. I look 7 months pregnant pinch this bulge.'
'The tegument has stretched truthful I'm successful symptom a lot. I person reduced activity. I don't for illustration to beryllium astir group anymore because I look for illustration a freak.
'It's devastating to beryllium worried astir your life.'
Mr Milham first spotted nan hernia past June, which started disconnected mini but grew 'larger and larger' complete time.
It cropped up 2 months aft having emergency bowel room to treat a abstracted condition.
Following nan op, he was discharged aft having a colostomy container fitted but past re-admitted to infirmary nan pursuing time owed to an infection.
Mr Milham says NHS doctors don't judge nan wide is 'life-threatening' successful its existent form.
But 1 private surgeon, he claims, said it was astatine nan 'upper limits' of what is fixable currently.
As nan hernia is still increasing Mr Milham fears if near overmuch longer past room won't beryllium capable to ever afloat correct it.
He said: 'I've been begging them and begging them for it to beryllium sooner.
'I've written to nan surgeon, nan complaints department, nan CEO section and sewage nowhere.
'I went for a backstage consultation and was told that nan hernia is now truthful big, it is connected nan precocious limits of what is mendable, which, to me, suggests that if I don't get this mended now past I'm stuck pinch this bowling shot for life.
'I was near pinch this 17.5cm bulge pinch thing to protect my insides and there's conscionable a centimetre of tegument wherever my bowels and intestines are.
'The surgeon said that my situation, though serious, isn't life-threatening. People for illustration maine are conscionable waiting for a slot to travel up erstwhile there's space.
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust said that Mr Milham was assessed to beryllium 'not clinically urgent' successful November.
He was past upgraded to 'clinically urgent' aft different assignment successful December, which could spot his waiting clip reduced.
A hernia is simply a communal problem that occurs erstwhile an soul portion of nan assemblage pushes though a weakness successful nan musculus aliases surrounding insubstantial wall, nan NHS says
To get nan cognition sooner Mr Milham claims he would request to salary arsenic overmuch arsenic £50,000 to get it privately
Hospital bosses confirmed they were investigating his title 'urgently'.
A spokesperson for Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust said: 'In statement pinch nan remainder of nan NHS, we are moving difficult to trim elective attraction waiting times and will ever prioritise cases pinch nan highest objective request — including escalating those wherever a patient's information has altered pursuing first assessment.
'While we cannot remark connected individual diligent details, we are urgently investigating nan title Mr Milham has made astir nan hold successful his care.'
Hernias tin create betwixt your thorax and your hips.
In galore cases room is required.
There are galore different types of hernias, but immoderate tin hap erstwhile insubstantial pokes done a surgical coiled successful nan tummy.
Some types of hernia tin besides go strangulated aliases origin a bowel obstruction, nan NHS says.
