Man who drank ‘deadly’ cocktail says he won’t touch alcohol now

I have given up drinking alcohol since that night. I now realise I should not have had the drink without knowing what was in it. 30-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO HAD DRINK WITH LIQUID NITROGEN

It’s been two months since the fateful night when a drink topped with liquid nitrogen left a Delhi man with a gaping hole in his stomach. He has not touched alcohol since.

“I realise I should not have had the drink without knowing what was in it,” says the 30-yearold.

It has taken him two months to recover from the surgery in which nearly half of his stomach had to be removed.

“After the surgery, I was fed intravenously and could not eat anything for four days as the doctors did not want leakages. After that, I was on a liquid diet for two weeks,” he said.

“We had to gradually increase his food intake because there were chances of leakages and infection,” said his surgeon Dr Mriganka S Sharma, who did the surgery at Columbia Asia Hospital in Gurugram.

He was in the hospital for nine days and it took him around a month to go back to normal diet.

Just two drinks had damaged his stomach and intestines.

“A portion of the middle and the lower part of his stomach had to be removed to connect it to the small intestine,” said Dr Amit Deepta Goswami, the minimal-invasive surgeon who did the surgery.