A grandad was forced to go to a private doctor to have a large growth removed from his nose after he got fed up of waiting for the NHS to schedule the procedure. It all started five years ago, when Thomas Stevenson started noticing the growth appear on his nose, called rhinophyma.
Over time it started getting bigger and initially, his NHS doctor put him on antibiotics. But it didn't work so in 2020 he asked his doctor if he could have it removed.
After a two-year wait, he was finally referred to an outpatient clinic in April 2022 but no treatment was offered. The 69-year-old especially wanted it done before his granddaughter's 18th birthday party, because he felt like she would want him in the pictures with the visible growth.
