Tom Smith is half the man he used to be.Â
With the help of weight-loss surgery to shrink the size of his stomach, the Memramcook man lost nearly 300 pounds. And while that’s given Smith a new lease on life, it has come with some unexpected problems.Â
After such a huge weight loss, Smith was fully anticipating being left with extra skin. But he didn’t realize the problems that would cause.
And it goes well beyond vanity, he said. The extra skin is cumbersome and often painful.
Tom Smith lost about half his body weight following gastric sleeve surgery in November 2019. (Submitted
