A 32-STONE grandfather who has not stepped outside his home in eight years is begging doctors to end his nightmare.

Gavin Solly’s wife Christine called out his doctor this week in desperation after he found out he will not get the gastric bypass operation he had pinned all his hopes on.

Mr Solly, 50, fell down concrete stairs while working at Dorset County Hospital in 2000 and broke his coccyx as well as damaging two discs in his back.

He stopped working, and because it was too painful to sit down, he retreated to his bedroom. He has been there ever since, apart from going to the bathroom or leaving the house in an ambulance.

He said: “For eight years I’ve been stuck in this bedroom.

“I can’t go out and see my grandchildren. I’ve got no life.”

Mr Solly, of Yalbury Lane, Crossways, was 20 stone when he had his accident.

He said: “After my accident I could not sit down and all I could do was lay flat on my bed.

“Now I just want to have the operation and get well.

“I’ve lost my 40s and 50 has hit me hard.

“I keep thinking that I’m going to be 60, but with everything I try and do I hit a brick wall.”

Mr Solly was looking forward to having a gastric bypass performed by specialists at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton this week.

But the hospital has told him he could not have the weight loss surgery due to concerns for his health.

Christine, 50, said: “I hope he gets the operation, as he just gives up hope. I have to be careful now and watch him. This time he said ‘That’s it, what’s the point of living now?’ and we had the nurse and doctor out.”

Mrs Solly was carer for her husband for eight years as well as having jobs outside her home.

She now works in a restaurant while Mr Solly receives professional help.

She said: “I just could not cope anymore.

“It got too much as it was 24/7 and we ended up arguing.

“The operation would give us back our life.

“He is just going to have a heart attack and die in bed otherwise.”

Mrs Solly said that although she believes other hospitals would agree to do the operation now, the couple cannot get the money transferred.

A spokesman for Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton said doctors cannot go ahead with Mr Solly’s gastric bypass operation due to an underlying medical condition which they were unwilling to discuss due to patient confidentiality.

The spokesman said: “We can’t go ahead with an operation if that's going to put him at risk and we are constantly trying to address that for him.

“He has an underlying condition that would put him at huge risk of complications that he is aware of.

“The hospital is not refusing to treat him. It’s not as simple as that – we are working with him.”