08 October,2009 09:41 AM IST | | Alisha Coelho
Bhopal man whose 260 kg weight equalled four grown men loses 150 kg
200 kg
The weight of 22-year-old commerce tutor Manish Bharvesh in 1998.
260 kg
Bharvesh balloons in 2006.
110 kg
His weight in 2009 after losing 150 kg since the surgery in 2006.
Decisive moment
When he found he was too fat to sit in a movie hall, or a plane or on any chair with armrests
After 10 years, he visited a movie hall to watch Taare Zameen Par recently, but saw little of the film.
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"I couldn't help it. I spent half the movie texting people that I was sitting in a hall and watching a movie! I never thought it would be possible," said an emotional Manish Bharvesh.
Bharvesh joins the few, but growing breed of super obese individuals going under the knife for a sleeve gastrectomy to get their bodies and lives back on track.
Laparoscopic surgeon Dr Shashank Shah, who operated on Bharvesh in 2006, says that over the past six years he operated on 16 patients whose weight exceeded 220 kg and that the trend is on the rise.
Meanwhile, the Bhopal resident is busy enjoying what he calls the 'little things'.
"I finally bought myself a car that I fit into and now I'm looking for a girl who I can marry. Where there was little or no hope before, there's so much to look forward to now," said Bharvesh.
Big Problems
No operating table was sturdy enough to hold Bharvesh.
Longer surgical tools had to be arranged as his abdomen wall was nearly a foot thick.u00a0
When Bharvesh was anaesthetised,u00a0not even the combined strength of 13 people could move him. So, he had to be revived every 30 minutes so that he could move himself from table.
800
The number of sleeve gastrectomy surgeries performed in India in 2008. 67 per cent of the surgeries were conducted on women.
India
Tops the list of countries followed by Taiwan and Hong Kong where people opt for this surgery
