'I was left in agony after doctors said I was too heavy for an operation - but they'd recorded the wrong weight'
A woman was kicked off the waiting list for an operation - after hospital staff mistakenly recorded her weight as 40 kilograms heavier than she was.
Jennifer had moved in with her partner, had a steady job as a social care worker, and was excited for the future that lay ahead. But in September of 2020, she was rushed to A&E with severe abdominal pain. She was passing out and vomiting. The Manchester Evening News spoke to Jennifer, from Skelmersdale, in early 2022. She said: “A month after I was rushed to A&E in an ambulance, I had the ultrasound scan and I received an urgent referral to gynaecology, they told me I had, what was at the time, a 17cm ovarian cyst.
"They can’t guarantee it’s not anything sinister until it’s out and has been bi-opsied, so I don’t even know what it is yet. All I know is that it’s a cystic mass. “I had been gaining weight because the sheer pain had made me more sedentary and stopped me leaving the house, and I was having hormone fluctuations because of the cyst which was affecting my weight too.
“I was angry that there mistake but the relief that they were going to do the operation at all outweighed almost everything,” Jennifer continued. “I sat in the car and cried in the hospital car park with the relief that they wouldn’t take me off the list completely and leave me as I was. Alison Kelly, Director of Nursing at Salford Care Organisation said: "We would like to apologise to Ms. Newby for any delays she experienced in her treatment at Salford Care Organisation. Like many NHS services, we are working hard to reduce our waiting lists to ensure patients are seen as soon as possible.
“So I’m on these painkillers that I don’t need for months, but I’m having to come down from a lot because there was opiate based prescriptions which you need weaning off.
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