article_snippet: I've lost my looks and feel disfigured.
article_snippet: People stare at me in the street
article_snippet: Now I could see it was bigger, about the size of a 5p coin, with veins coming out of it.'
article_snippet: But inside I felt like a robot.
article_snippet: but I needed to know how I looked. '
article_snippet: I'd been warned I would look different but nothing could have prepared me for what I saw.
article_snippet: I did't recognise myself. '
article_snippet: I thought I looked like a monster. '
article_snippet: and I had to explain that even though I looked different on the outside, I would still be the same mummy on the inside. '