Roger Logan recently lost 140 pounds in just three hours thanks to the removal of a giant tumor from his lower abdomen that was not, as doctors initially told him, “just fat.”
The 57-year-old from Gulfport, Mississippi lived with the massive mound for 12 years. Before last Thursday, he hadn’t walked on his own in years. His days and nights were spent in an extra-wide armchair.
Roger Logan’s tumor weighed nearly 140 pounds (Photo used with permission from Kitty Logan)
In late January, his family loaded him and the chair into an Enterprise rental van and drove 40 hours to Bakersfield Memorial Hospital in California for a life-altering surgery that doctors had refused to attempt several years earlier.
The tumor had its own blood supply, fed through arteries nearly the size of those in his leg.
The California surgeon who finally agreed to risk removing the growth — there was a strong possibility Logan could bleed to death during the operation — believes it was ultimately the result of an ingrown hair.
Roger Logan celebrates his successful surgery. (Photo used with permission from Kitty Logan)
Logan’s wife, Kitty, told The Daily Caller her husband is “doing wonderfully.”
The prognosis for the chair isn’t quite as bright.
“I think his plan is to burn it,” she said. “Maybe we’ll have a bonfire at the church or something.”