As a nurse, Alysa Stephens knows just how important preparing B.C.’s hospitals for a possible wave of COVID-19 infections is.
But as a patient, she’s frustrated. Stephens has been sidelined from her job by an injury that’s left her with compressed nerves under her neck.
The Langley resident is grappling with numbness and pain, and has been told without surgery soon, she could see permanent damage.
That operation was just weeks away when the province moved on March 18 to cancel about 11,000 scheduled surgeries to free up beds in the province’s hospitals. “I cried.