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Sick woman’s desperate vaccine plea - NEWS.com.au

Sick woman’s desperate vaccine plea - NEWS.com.au

Sick woman’s desperate vaccine plea - NEWS.com.au
Sep 27, 2021 1 min, 17 secs

Melbourne’s cut back on elective surgeries has put Siobhan Kellaghan-Tasker’s access to her “life saving” nasojejunal tube in jeopardy.

Siobhan Kellaghan-Tasker, 20, recently had a “life saving” nasojejunal (NJ) tube fitted to help alleviate symptoms associated with her gastroparesis – a condition that slows or stops the movement of food from the stomach to small intestine.

Ms Kellaghan-Tasker’s doctor informed her that because her tube replacement fell into the elective surgery category, it was considered non essential.

“Because I won’t die without my tube and instead I just become incredibly unwell, it is considered an elective surgery, and if I don’t get in before the date I won’t have my tube for months,” she said in a TikTok video, uploaded on the weekend.

After initially being told by her doctor last week that she may not be able to have a replacement tube fitted, she received unexpected positive news on Monday.

“I have found out today and am very lucky I have an appointment for my new tube to be replaced next week, but there are many people out there in similar situations that haven’t been quite so lucky,” she said.

“Many people don’t realise that when elective procedures are reduced, that doesn’t mean boob jobs and things like that, these procedures include ports and picc lines for people to receive IVIG [intravenous immunoglobulin] and chemo, endoscopy and colonoscopy, and heart monitors to name a few.

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