Liberating operation

“It is amazing how liberating this is and I feel grateful and blessed to live in Canada,” she says. Osteoarthritis runs in her family. She recalls that her grandmother could do little more than move between her bed and rocking chair and kept a bottle of what her grandchildren were told was lemon juice at her side. It was actually alcohol, the only way she had of coping with the pain.

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