I Sold My House to Save My Son's Life ; Lives Colin Corfield Hit the Headlines Last Week After a Film Crew Followed His Quest to Shed 46 Stones. Janet Tansley Spoke to the Woman Who Made His Weight Loss Possible - His Mum

Liverpool Echo › January 21, 2009

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JEAN Corfield loved her son so much she sold her home to save his life.

Faced with the possibility of losing her 'little baby' while he waited for a gastric bypass operation on the NHS, she put the 'For Sale' sign up outside her bungalow in Wales to raise the pounds 33,000 he needed to have it done privately.

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I Sold My House to Save My Son's Life ; Lives Colin Corfield Hit the Headlines Last Week After a Film Crew Followed His Quest to Shed 46 Stones. Janet Tansley Spoke to the Woman Who Made His Weight Loss Possible - His Mum

"I could see Colin's position by then," says Jean, 72, from Runcorn.

"This was my chance to give him a better chance of life; a quality of life ... any life.

"But I don't thi...

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