A woman who says she was repeatedly denied adequate emergency care last spring is blasting the Newfoundland and Labrador health-care system, saying she’s been left psychologically scarred after being told several times that her gangrenous appendix was simply anxiety or constipation.

Joy Spence, 21, said she visited emergency departments at two hospitals in St. John’s over the course of nearly two weeks this May.

What began as weakness and abdominal pain on her right side quickly deteriorated into blacking out from the agony in her torso.

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    6 days ago

    Fuck:

    She’s taken a year off her studies in Memorial University’s social work program and has lost her job. She’s looking for trauma therapy, but now doesn’t have the money to pay for it, she says.