‘Sunderland surgeon said I needed an amputation – but I didn’t’

But in 2021, Irwin dropped “a bombshell”.

“He just put his hand on top of mine, looked into my eyes and just went…you need to think about an amputation and how that would benefit you.

“Get rid of the hand, get rid of the problem and you are not going to have that wrist pain. I was terrified.”

However, when Irwin retired in 2022, Georgia’s new surgeon told her there was “no reason whatsoever for you to have an amputation”.

She said she now lived in constant agony and wished she had not had any surgery.

“It has just stopped so much of my life – it really has.”