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Anne Monie submission of 10 November 2021

PE1865/UUU – Suspend the use of surgical mesh and fixation devices

I originally submitted information on 2nd July, but I feel that this additional information is now important to add.

I had first arranged removal surgery with Dr. Veronikis, St. Louis early 2020. My removal surgery was scheduled for 25th March 2020. Unfortunately, lockdown came in at just that time and my surgery had to be cancelled. It was rescheduled a few times until the US government banned all visitors to the country early 2021. 

I wrote to the government a few times asking if there was any way they could assist me in getting to America but unfortunately no assistance was given.

It was only in July of this year that I found through searching internet, and information given to me by a fellow mesh sufferer in Ireland, that I could apply to the American Embassy for and exception to travel on the grounds of requiring urgent surgery.

I provided all the documents the Embassy requested, and I had approval just four days later. I felt really upset that a simple call from the Scottish Government to the American Embassy could not have been made and would have avoided many months of pain and suffering.

In August my husband and I made the long tiring journey to St. Louis. Twenty-three hours going out and twenty- one hours returning. Three flights each way. IN TOTAL MY SURGERY COST ME £19,000 ALL OF WHICH I FUNDED MYSELF.

Dr. Veronikis successfully carried out total removal of my TVTO mesh. What he found totally shocked me as despite having had two MRI’s and Translabial scan (paid privately) it was found that the mesh had shrunk, twisted, was stuck to bone and stuck to artery!! I was horrified that if my surgery had been delayed the mesh could have possibly perforated the artery.

This is why, it is absolutely necessary to ban all plastic mesh. Until at the point of removal there is no way of knowing the exact damage being caused within the body. 


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