I avoid certain foods and you know I'm a swimming instructor and I have to
demonstrate so whenever I demonstrate I'm flat and if I lay flat
I get instant heartburn it's it's agony I usually sleeps at up like just very
uncomfortable and I get neck aches and and that and you know I don't sleep
properly so it affects me in so many different ways going through life of the
person with acid reflux is its all-encompassing our whole family
everything we ever did was always tapered with will Molly manage this even
things that going over a circular bridge would be impossible because just the
motion of going round and round would cause Molly to be sick so even short
journeys had to be planned everything we ever did had to be pre-planned and often
cut short birthday parties cut short because Molly would be sick at the table
when she was a little girl and unable to comprehend that she felt sick she would
just be sick Molly came to me a few months ago with she has been suffering
with reflux almost all her life Molly's only 19 in the last 19 years
she's been to a lot of different specialists for a reflux but hasn't
really found the right treatment for her she's been suffering a lot and the
quality of her life is very poor as a result I'm hoping that the Linx
procedure will change my life like on a crazy level I hope hoping to be able to
go back to sport to be able to you know work out whenever I want or be able to
eat the foods that I want to be able to go out and make friends and drink with
my friends and being able to just do things fun you know
Linx's conceptually a very very simple procedure when you have reflux that
means the muscle between the esophagus and the stomach is not working very well
as a result food and water from the stomach is coming up all the Linx
procedure does is is set up magnetic beads that you put around this muscle
and just augments the muscle links is a laparoscopic procedure that means it's a
keyhole procedure a minimally invasive procedure the procedure only takes half
an hour or so patients go home the same they do not have any big cuts they don't
have any dressings it's just glue there are three small
holes which are five millimeter sized and two holes which are 10 to 12
millimeter size and that's it so it's like having your gallbladder out
it's a day case operation in home in the evening and get back on with your life
the next day before I was always worried about what I was eating and I would
always have something really plain and something that I knew wouldn't affect me
and now I eat I sort of like oh I fancy that and I can eat it and you know I
have orange juice and I have as much hot chocolate that I once I eat what I want
when I want and it's it weird but it's so nice the biggest thing would be my
sleep I actually lay down to sleep I don't have neck pain I don't wake up in
the night with this intense pain in my chest from acid burning through my
esophagus it's it's I don't have it anymore I don't have this unpleasant
feeling instead I wake up either to my cats or I wake up to an alarm and I feel
good rather than hurting it's been a joy to watch the changes in
my daughter and the process and her partnership with her surgeon and the
healthcare staff they helped Molly to understand what's happening to her they
didn't treat her like child they treated her like someone who had the knowledge
and could make the decision yourself she made him film choices she was very very
lucky meet Mr. Singhall. Molly is a swimming
instructor she enjoys her job much more she can eat much more now and she has
put on a bit of weight because of this operation all because she does not have
reflux she's more confident now she can go out she can eat whatever she likes
she can drink what she likes and I think it is important for somebody in a
position to be able to do that I'm looking forward to you know teaching my
brain to eat more and to try new things I'm looking forward to going back to
sports and to doing the things that I love more than anything you know I'm
feeling good about myself not feeling as anxious anything like that yeah
it's it's gonna be an incredible life now