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A MUM whose stomach has exploded through its scar is wired in a race against the clock to receive a vital transplant of five organs.
Michelle Oddy, 43, desperately needs to find five new organs – all from the same donor.
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In 2014, Derbys, an Ilkeston patient with Crohn's disease, woke up one day to find that her stomach had torn – "a leak of blood and stool".
A fistula had torn her 10-year-old Caesarean scar, leaving her with multiple organ failure.
In 2015, Michelle started losing a lot of weight and gradually lost four kilograms.
Michelle said, "They told me that my organs had been packed and that I only had a few days left."
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Fortunately, Michelle went to the hospital just in time and received a liquid food, which was then installed at her home after four weeks spent in the hospital.
Since then, a nurse has come to visit Michelle six nights a week to administer the liquid food, which pumps essential nutrients directly to her main arteries.
Michelle said, "My weight has started to improve, but a nurse always comes to my house to feed me every day. It's really crazy, I can not go on living like this.
"My organs have stopped working, I still have a hole in the stomach and a permanent colostomy bag.
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Michelle Oddy / Ferrari News Agency
"I have experienced one of the worst days of my life in 2018, I felt bad. So I had to go to the hospital. After staying there for two hours, my wife, Laura, came in and found me unresponsive and staring blankly.
"Then I remember the room full of doctors. I was in septic shock due to infections caused by TPN and my veins gave up after being pumped with liquid nutrients over the past four years.
"Once they stabilized me, they told Laura to come so we could say goodbye because I would not come back tomorrow.
"Saying good bye to my daughter and Laura was one of the most difficult times I've ever experienced."
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Michelle Oddy / Ferrari News Agency
Despite the seriousness of her condition, Michelle managed to fully recover and decided to marry Laura six weeks later.
She must now have her liver, pancreas, small intestine, large intestine and half of her stomach replaced.
The rescue operation will take 20 hours. Michelle will have a 35% chance of dying on the operating table.
"The idea that I have a 35% chance of never waking up is terrifying," she said.
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"What I always remember is that there is a 65% chance that I will wake up better, that I can take my daughter on vacation and that we can swim together.
"I want to find my quality of life. I want to spend days with my family, like everyone else. "
Without her family, Michelle says that she would have already given up.
"I risk that for them, for better or for worse.
"At the end of the day, it's only a matter of time before I die, it's even worse.
"My quality of life is so bad that I'm ready to play: half of my inner resources are replaced.
"I want that gaping hole in my stomach to disappear, I can not do anything, it completely caught me off guard."
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Andrew Butler, consulting transplant surgeon at the NHS Foundation Trust at Cambridge University Hospital, says that such an operation is rare and complex.
"We have performed about 100 procedures of this type and internationally, about 1,500 intestinal grafts in adults since 1992.
"In the UK, the Addenbrooke Hospital is the only center offering multi-organ transplants for adults, including a liver."
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