A mum's 50th birthday treat of a tummy tuck backfired when she ended up hospitalised with sepsis and a belly covered in rotting flesh from the botched procedure in Turkey.
Janet Smalley opted to get the surgery done ahead of her upcoming birthday in January, flying to Istanbul for the operation on September 26.
But just days after going under the knife she began "shivering uncontrollably" and "burning up" intermittently and claims nurses at the Turkish clinic reassured her everything was "normal".
