British Man’s Quest For Life-Changing Surgery Leads Him To Mass.

http://media.boston.cbslocal.com/CBSBOS_2404201523151400000AA.mp4 ORANGE (CBS) – A British man who was once one of the heaviest men in the world will undergo life-changing surgery next week. At his heaviest, 54-year-old Paul Mason weighed nearly 1,000 pounds. “It was so bad, that the thought of one day, me walking into the kitchen full of food just horrified me, scared me. It’s like an alcoholic walking into a bar,” says Mason. Mason lost nearly 650 pounds after gastric bypass surgery in England in 2010. Soon after, he realized his health concerns were far from over. “I’d done all that hard work of getting the weight down and you’re still trapped in a baggy old skin,” says Mason. Mason was left with 100 pounds of excess skin. “It’s like if you had two children attached to your body – one around your leg, the other around your middle,” says Mason. Mason is in constant pain and relies on crutches and a wheelchair. He moved to Orange in October 2014 to live with his fiancée, Rebecca Mountain, and closer to the New York City plastic surgeon who offered to perform skin removal surgery free of charge. On Tuesday, Dr. Jennifer Capla from Lenox Hill Hospital will perform the life-changing, eight hour long surgery. (Photo by Julie Loncich/WBZ) “The 980 pound person who was lying in that bed 24/7, that was a different person. After Tuesday, that will be another different person,” says Mason. Mountain, 41, will be at his bedside. The couple ...
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