The formerly 980-pound man was dubbed the "world's fattest man" before a gastric bypass dropped him down to 650 pounds five years ago. Mason lost even more weight on Tuesday when a surgery in Manhattan lopped off 100 pounds of excess skin, The New York Times reported.
The 54-year-old Brit couldn't find a doctor who would perform the surgery in England, so he moved to the U.S., where weight loss surgery is our bread and butter.
Times reporter Sarah Lyall has been with Mason every step of the way. She's documented how his initial bypass enabled him to get out of bed and move on his own for the first time in years. She celebrated with him after a New York plastic surgeon offered to take off the extra 100 pounds of skin for free. And just after noon on Tuesday, as a team of surgeons at Lenox Hill Hospital operated on Mason, Lyall shared his surgery with the world.
Much to her followers' dismay, Lyall tweeted out graphic images of the skin-removal surgery that, while interesting, do not go well with lunch. Her tweets are below.
WARNING: The following photos show a bloody skin-removal surgery.
Four plastic surgeons are working on his abdomen, to remove a huge apron of skin hanging way down.
— Sarah Lyall (@sarahlyall) April 28, 2015One problem is the extraordinary amount of blood vessels that need to be cut and sutured or stapled.
— Sarah Lyall (@sarahlyall) April 28, 201524 pounds of loose skin pic.twitter.com/QNkdwR7sNt
— Sarah Lyall (@sarahlyall) April 28, 2015And now the doctors are closing the huge abdominal wound and will start to remove another huge section of skin from the legs.
— Sarah Lyall (@sarahlyall) April 28, 2015Rags used to mop up the blood in the surgery. pic.twitter.com/sBVP3vBUmj
— Sarah Lyall (@sarahlyall) April 28, 2015The OR floor. pic.twitter.com/riYFHGyMpM
— Sarah Lyall (@sarahlyall) April 28, 2015Sorry for graphic images! This is such an extraordinary thing and these surgeons are amazing.
— Sarah Lyall (@sarahlyall) April 28, 2015(This one is particularly graphic): Excess skin, still attached to leg, the next part to be removed. pic.twitter.com/QscoBbLwP8
— Sarah Lyall (@sarahlyall) April 28, 2015Apparently the excess skin, alas, cannot be used again, e.g. for burn victims.
— Sarah Lyall (@sarahlyall) April 28, 2015Read more about Paul Mason's surgery in the Times.
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