COVID-19 cases means she’ll likely have to hang on a bit longer.“This is excruciating waiting, not having an endpoint so we know for sure she’ll be able to get the surgery, and knowing that as time goes by, the options available to the surgeon when he’s doing the surgery become less,” said Clow, who detailed Brownlee’s situation as she wasn’t up for an interview.
Omicron is filling up Canada’s hospitals. Your health issue might not qualify, doctors say “She’s only 40 years old and she has kids and it’s excruciating.”Compounding the couple’s frustration is the fact that the province is allowing businesses shuttered earlier this month to reopen with capacity limits on Monday while maintaining the pause on non-urgent surgeries.“It’s infuriating, because the implication to me is that business and the economy is more important than people’s lives,” Clow said.Brownlee started experiencing abdominal pain last January and decided to get checked out.
After several tests, a doctor told her she didn’t have cancer but needed to have an ovarian cyst removed, Clow said. When she went in for that procedure last June, Clow said the medical team realized “there was indeed cancer and it had spread throughout her abdomen.”That cancer can’t be treated by chemotherapy and requires surgery to “remove everything in her abdomen that she doesn’t need,” Clow said.
Tens of thousands of non-urgent procedures expected to be delayed in Ontario in coming weeks “It’ll probably involve a full hysterectomy, could involve parts of her large bowel.