Jessica Morine, 38, can sympathize with Neil’s experience. She spent years waiting for care for pelvic pain and rectal prolapse, all while experiencing painful vaginal bleeding. Her only reprieve was to be on opioids full time.
In January, she was referred for prolapse surgery and a hysterectomy. But the surgeon she was referred to suddenly resigned in March, meaning she had to be referred again — putting her back at Square 1.
With her pain worsening and no sense of when she may get a call, she travelled to Mexico to get the surgeries she needed to start living a normal life again. She paid $14,000 out of pocket.
“I was staring at the OR wall in Mexico … and my last thought before they administered the anesthesia was, ‘I was forced to be here by the Nova Scotia health-care system,'” said Morine, who lives in the Halifax suburb of Spryfield and has two children, ages five and 10.
