Wendy Gebel is confined to her armchair, barely able to move due to debilitating hip pain.
“For the last three years I can hardly do anything because the pain is so bad, it’s bone on bone,” she said.
“I don’t go anywhere, I’ve got no quality of life, these four walls are about it. Even if I cough it’s like a really sharp pain that goes right through me.”
The 59-year-old from the northern Hobart suburb of Bridgewater has been waiting for a hip replacement at the Royal Hobart Hospital for three years.
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