Mum awarded £925,000 compensation after NHS blunder

[annie]

A MOTHER-of-two has been awarded £925,000 compensation after an NHS blunder which left her with a devastating and life-changing condition.

Claire Thornber now lives with constant pain because a prolapsed disc which was pressing on nerves at the base of her spine was not treated fast enough.

The 42-year-old said the pay-out would help her and her children but said no amount would compensate for the trauma and the lasting condition, known as cauda equina syndrome.

She said: “The impact of the errors has been huge and I was just being dismissed with back pain but it was more serious.

“I lost everything to cauda equina syndrome but the tragedy is that if there had been greater awareness of the need for urgency things would have been so different.”

Because of the negligence, Claire lost her established cleaning business Scrubbers & Co and has permanent pain in her legs which makes walking difficult.

She is also doubly incontinent and has suffered a loss of sexual function.


She said: “Before my injury I ran a successful cleaning business but have had to give that up and the strain of everything caused my marriage to break down.

“Running the business was just not an option any more due to the pain and my disability and all sense of a normal life quickly vanished.

“Even socialising was made impossible. No amount of compensation will ever make up for that but I am relieved that I’ll now have some help to cope and try to make the best of things

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[wendy]

that is a lot of money.

[JaneJ]

It is but when you think it will have to help her for the rest of her life its not that much really