When Jackie Pugh was given her date for her operation for breast reconstruction it was as if the final piece the jigsaw to her cancer recovery was being put in place.
But now she has been told that the junior doctor strikes mean that the surgery, due to have taken place on Friday has been cancelled.
She is even more anxious to get the operation done having had the dreadful new that her husband is now to have chemotherapy after his diagnosis of lymphoma. She had to endure chemotherapy and radiotherapy - having her last bout of chemo just before the Covid lockdown. "It has been a brutal time and having this surgery would been the final step in my recovery," she said.
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