Jennifer Talbot admits she underestimated the time and money she would have to spend to look after her health.
Over the past 12 months, the Charters Towers local has driven up and down the Flinders Highway, sometimes three times a week, to see her orthopaedic rheumatologist and endocrinologist in Townsville, which is 130 kilometres away.
Ms Talbot said she had to take time off work to travel which added stress to her finances.
