{"id":278721,"date":"2026-02-11T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/278721\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:56:08","slug":"sunderland-surgeon-said-i-needed-an-amputation-but-i-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/278721\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sunderland surgeon said I needed an amputation &#8211; but I didn&#8217;t&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But in 2021, Irwin dropped &#8220;a bombshell&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He just put his hand on top of mine, looked into my eyes and just went&#8230;you need to think about an amputation and how that would benefit you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Get rid of the hand, get rid of the problem and you are not going to have that wrist pain. I was terrified.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, when Irwin retired in 2022, Georgia&#8217;s new surgeon told her there was &#8220;no reason whatsoever for you to have an amputation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she now lived in constant agony and wished she had not had any surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has just stopped so much of my life \u2013 it really has.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But in 2021, Irwin dropped &#8220;a bombshell&#8221;. &#8220;He just put his hand on top of mine, looked into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-278721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}