But as he came round from his surgery he struggled to talk and breathe. Phillip needed to lose between five and seven stone and had chosen to go private after the pandemic caused a two-year back log in NHS bariatric surgery, as reported by WalesOnline. That was going to be another tier in his career." "The surgery was December and he was due to start the PhD course that February and all of his Christmas presents had been things like a Thermos because he was going to have to do a lot of travelling to East Anglia," Dana said. Phillip Morris and his son Orson (Image: Dana Morris) The gastric sleeve was going to allow Phillip get back to his normal weight and reverse his symptoms, including issues with his eyesight. His body got more resistant to insulin as he continued to feel hungry and put weight on. His treatment had caused him to fall into a "vicious cycle" said Dana. He was put on insulin but 20 years later he was told he actually had type two diabetes. Phillip had long struggled with his weight and he was diagnosed as having type one diabetes while he was in his early 20s at drama school. Read more: Police and council issue statements about Gwynedd resort 'plagued by low-level crime' It was almost ready for print, said Dana sadly. But he never recovered from his operation at St Anthony’s Hospital in Surrey on December 6, 2021, and he died four days later.ĭana – who Phillip met when the two of them were still teens at Camp America – said some of his last words to her were: "You’ve got the project right hon?" He was referring to the project he worked on right up until he went in for surgery, editing Home to You: Celebrating 10 Years of Wales Arts Review. Phillip was due to embark on a PhD literary programme at the University of East Anglia – one of the best writing courses in the world – in February 2022. Phillip Morris, from Newport, died at the age of 48 leaving his wife Dana and young son Orson bereft. An award-winning writer and academic and "wonderful father, husband, and son" died just days after private gastric sleeve surgery which was supposed to give him a new lease of life.
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