A grandmother has been left with a disfigured nose after doctors failed to notice she had a tumour the size of turnip growing on her nose - and nicknamed her ‘Pinocchio’.
Golda Humphrey, 79, now has a hole in the centre of her face after a series of life-saving operations to remove a cancerous growth from the end of her nose.
The problem developed when she was in hospital and over nearly five months a scab repeatedly formed on the tip of her nose before falling off. More pic below....
Over the course of two operations, surgeons at an Essex hospital removed almost all of her nose, as well as a portion of her upper lip, and a slice of skin from her neck for skin grafts which did not take.
She has also been fitted with a prosthetic nose, which she is reluctant to wear because it’s uncomfortable.
Mrs Humphrey and her family are considering suing the hospital in Kent - which they do not want to name for legal reasons - for negligence, claiming it had ample opportunity to spot the tumour.
Granddaughter Shannon Helmsley, 18, said her grandmother wasn’t the same person any more.
She said: ‘My nan has been knocked for six by all this.
‘They’ve given her a prosthetic nose but she’s self-conscious about it because her face is a complete mess.
‘It looks like she was shot in the face.
‘I love her with all the world but I think the NHS has really let her down.’
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