shockedcanadian
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I know the feeling as my health issues should have been addressed almost three years ago.
We are living in a creepy place. Save some of us please.
A Halifax resident is frustrated after waiting more than three years for an MRI that showed a benign brain tumour and she's worried others are suffering because of an inefficient system.
A doctor at a hospital eye clinic referred Marina Atwell for diagnostic imaging of her brain in June 2021, a few months after a routine eye test detected one of her eyes was significantly weaker. She waited more than three years to learn that the problem, which was affecting her vision, was a growth impacting her optical nerve.
"I'm told that I have a two-centimetre tumour on my brain. And so I'm a little bit stressed at this point because how long [has] it been there? How fast is it growing?" she said.
"When you hear those words, brain tumour, it's like you're written off. That's what I felt."
While Atwell's condition is stable and the tumour won't be removed because of its size and location, she said nobody has explained why it took so long to get the MRI that helped diagnose her.
We are living in a creepy place. Save some of us please.
A Halifax resident is frustrated after waiting more than three years for an MRI that showed a benign brain tumour and she's worried others are suffering because of an inefficient system.
A doctor at a hospital eye clinic referred Marina Atwell for diagnostic imaging of her brain in June 2021, a few months after a routine eye test detected one of her eyes was significantly weaker. She waited more than three years to learn that the problem, which was affecting her vision, was a growth impacting her optical nerve.
"I'm told that I have a two-centimetre tumour on my brain. And so I'm a little bit stressed at this point because how long [has] it been there? How fast is it growing?" she said.
"When you hear those words, brain tumour, it's like you're written off. That's what I felt."
While Atwell's condition is stable and the tumour won't be removed because of its size and location, she said nobody has explained why it took so long to get the MRI that helped diagnose her.
