The daughter of a Scots pensioner - who has lived in crippling pain for more than two years as she waits for a back operation - fears she will die in agony after being hit by more surgery delays. Mary Travis, 69, from Beechwood, Bonhill, opened up to the Lennox Herald in March about her plight, with health chiefs assuring her at the time that surgery would go-ahead within nine months.
Mary’s spine is so severely twisted that she can only leave bed for a few minutes each day, whilst a cocktail of palliative care strength morphine and powerful painkillers leave her drowsy and struggling to concentrate. After counting down the weeks, Mary, who has already waited two years for the surgery, was told on October 16 that, despite being at the top of a waiting list, she could now face a further two-year wait.
And Mary’s daughter Mikaela McCormick fears that her mum will now die in pain, unless the operation can be brought forward. Mikaela said: “My mum doesn’t have another year. She is giving up mentally and physically.I worked in elderly care and was an assistant nurse in a hospital.
