How delayed treatment has impacted Robert.

As I said, about the home care, you know, it's not there and the hospitals think, yep, it's been done, been done. And when I went back to the East Surrey Hospital, outpatients I had two appointments and this was in December. That was about six months after my operation. I went back in March. That was nine months after the operation and both my knees were still very, very, very painful, swollen tremendously. and the registrar said, they just touched it, just touched it, and I was in agony. They said, oh that's terrible, that's terrible. I said, well what are you going to do about it, doctor? Oh, we've done our job, it's not down to us. I said, well it's not down to you. Well, it's down to physiotherapy. I'm not getting a physiotherapy doctor, but that's not down to us, we can't do nothing. I said, and so this was in March, I said so what about doing an x-ray because I've got wire in my knee. I said because I had a fall when I was in the rehab hospital but nobody x-rayed my knees and asked for it and they refused. What's the point in this? Are you all right now? I said I'm not all right, look at my knees. Now, there's a point in this. The wire wouldn't have broke. So, October, that was in March of last year, so in October, I went to Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. I pushed and pushed and pushed to get there, because there's a four-year waiting list in that hospital and I went to Bulls Overstreet, the outpatient clinic and they explained my needs and I spoke to the consultant and he said bad news, bad news, bad news and good news. I said yeah go on then. He said the wire is broken and that's what's causing the nerve pain in your knees and that's why you've got so much infection in your knees. For me to take the wire out, it's more harder to take the wire out than to put it in because you've got all the nerves and the muscles. He said I could cause more damage than what they are now. Secondly, you could get an infection, especially with early stand loss and diabetes, you could get an infection and lose your leg. And thirdly, I could succeed. But it would make no difference to your knees, Robert, because your knees are in a bad way. Ah, but it's down to, really, it's down to what you want me to do. I think we'll leave it. He said, well, that's what I suggest. And he said, but if it gets worse, come back and we'll have another thing. But really remember what I've told you.