A Glasgow granny has lived with constant pain waiting more than five years for hip replacement surgery.
Joan Brown learned last week that she will undergo the procedure at Glasgow Royal Infirmary next month after being referred to a specialist by her GP in December 2017.
The 60-year-old mother of six says she is unable to walk much more than a few steps unaided and needs a wheelchair and walking frame, the Sunday Mail reports.
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She takes morphine every four hours to help her cope with the pain in her right knee and both hips and is desperate to get her life back.
Now, she's relieved to have finally been told she will have her operation on May 15.
Joan, from Parkhead, said: "It has been a long wait and the pain has been getting worse. If the operation is a success, I am hoping to get surgery on my other hip and my knees. I just want to get back to having a normal life, free of pain."
In the past three years, Joan has rarely left home and her son Scott had to give up work to become her full-time carer. She needs help each day with dressing, washing and cooking and has fallen down her stairs several times.
Campaigner Sean Clerkin, who took up her case, said: "Having represented Joan, I want to thank the Sunday Mail for highlighting her long wait to get a hip replacement. Your intervention has been decisive in Joan getting a date in May."
Joan was given the good news on Tuesday following a complaint by Clerkin last month to Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board. In his response, director Neil McCallum said: "I'd like to wish Ms Brown well for her surgery and to apologise for the distress the delay may have caused."
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board had declined to comment.
But hospital sources claimed Joan was advised at her 2018 appointment to speak to her GP if she needed more treatment. She was put on the waiting list after she was seen in December 2021.
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