They say it is holding her back from taking her first steps
A Nottingham family fear their one-year-old daughter is being held back after delays to an operation to remove additional digits. Evelyn Woodland, who turns one on Saturday, September 30, was born with polydactyly, meaning she has one extra finger on each hand and toe on each foot.
"I struggle putting socks on her and I've noticed they do hurt if she catches them, and that's the same if she catches her hands." The 26-year-old from Bilborough said midwives at the Queen's Medical Centre failed to refer her daughter for the procedure after she was born. Her care was then briefly transferred over to University Hospitals Birmingham while she had an operation to address her glaucoma, but a planned procedure on her digits was again cancelled in August due to not having the right specialists available. Evelyn's care was subsequently moved back to NUH, which informed the family they would have to wait for "quite a while".
"It's very frustrating, I understand the NHS is under pressure but I've been messed about going backwards and forwards," she added. Evelyn's dad, Curtis Woodland, said he had been left "angry and upset" by the delays.
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