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Waiting lists: NI woman travelling abroad for knee replacement

She added: “It is not like that 24/7 but a lot of the time when you go to move, if you are sitting down and you go to get up or you go to sit down that pain is like someone stabbing you with a knitting needle. It is excruciating.”

Doctors told her when she was first placed on a waiting list it would be a seven-year wait for an operation in the health service in Northern Ireland.

In the time since, and despite trying to “put on a brave face”, Monica said “life as I know it has stopped”

“I don’t socialise in the same way, I don’t do the things I used to do,” she said.

“I used to be very active now I put off things, agree to do things then change my mind. The pain is awful especially if I don’t sleep at night.”


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