Patients’ pain at cancelled ops

A WOMAN due to have a hysterectomy after suffering severe pain for half her life was among those whose operations were cancelled yesterday.

Michelle Jaundrell, 31, has been waiting for the procedure since September. After 13 miscarriages and unbearable period pains since the age of 15, it was hoped the operation at Whiston Hospital in Prescot would allow her and her husband to move forward with their lives.

‘It was supposed to be a fresh start, it was the closure I needed,’ Mrs Jaundrell told the Mail. ‘The last few months have been hell with all the hormone therapy and it now feels like that was all for nothing.

‘I’m really upset and angry. I’m angry that it has had to come to this. I’m not angry that the junior doctors have had a strike, I support them – it’s the fact that they felt like they had no other choice.’ Mrs Jaundrell, from St Helens, Merseyside, is yet to receive a new appointment date and fears having to endure the preparatory therapy again.

Alice Pope, 3, was due to have hip surgery today at Tunbridge Wells hospital in Kent but was informed yesterday that the operation had been cancelled.

The digital PR executive from Folkestone, who suffers from arthritis, has been waiting more than a year to have the procedure which will relieve pain and discomfort. This is the second time her surgery has been postponed.

Miss Pope has now been left in limbo wondering when she will get to have the operation. However, she said: ‘I’m a little bit annoyed but there are more important cases than mine which need to be seen more urgently.’