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Miss Natalia Price 2021-12-13 Person 1 5 0

I researched and paid privately for Miss Price to fully remove my TVT mid urethral sling on the 3rd August 2019. She was very softly spoken and seemed kind, caring and knowledgeable. She had been highly recommended to me by a friend who is a medical professional who was living and working in Oxford where Miss Price was practising at the time. I felt considerably better as soon as I woke from the operation but was confident some of the TVT remained due to a particular pain which remained. She assured me and my husband that the TVT had all been removed. I have since had a further 5 cm of the TVT removed by a second removal surgeon, (Professor Hashim in Bristol). When I complained to Miss Price I got no response. I subsequently learned it is not possible to fully remove a TVT laparascopically which was the approach she used. She has since denied telling me she was ever going to remove all of the TVT despite using the operation code denoting full TVT removal (there is a different code for a partial) in her preoperative letter to me and despite make five references to a full mesh removal in this same letter to me prior to the operation. I am left £10,000 out of pocket (I ended up paying twice for the operation) which was just the operation cost. In addition I had to pay twice for accomodation close to her in Oxford and again close by for the second operation in Bristol. I had to be off work both times and therefore had considerable loss of earnings, I am left with so much scar tissue from having two operations that my vagina is totally filled with it making penetrative sex and even smears impossible. However, worst of all if I hadn't known my own body, trusted my instinct, been able to research and pay out a second time for further removal surgery, I may have lost my bladder as by the time I went for a second full removal of the TVT the remaining mesh had already penetrated the external wall of my bladder. The upset, distress anger and injustice I feel is slowly destroying me. I trust no-one. I have no confidence in my own judgement of people any more, I am depressed and anxious and have a very poor quality of life due to the pain I've been left in which means I cannot sit down ever without being uncomfortable or in pain. Noone in the medical profession has ever apologised and two solicitors have told me I have no case. I contemplate suicide daily.