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Former Bachelorette star Angie Kent has been left fuming after her elective surgery was cancelled due to Covid.
Speaking on her podcast Two Girls, One Pod this week, the 30-year-old vented her frustration at her surgery being postponed as Australia's health care system becomes more and more overwhelmed with rising Covid cases.
Angie, who splits her time between hometown of Queensland and Sydney, has endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and explained she recently discovered she had a fibroid (a non-cancerous growth).
Angie Kent has vented her frustrations after her elective surgery for a fibroid was cancelled due to Covid
In NSW, non-urgent elective surgery has been suspended until mid-February, while Queensland has cancelled elective surgeries until March 1 because the health care system is under a lot of strain.
'I was in a lot of pain and I was waiting to get home to (QLD) to see my gynecologist and surgeon because I do need surgery you know? They say it's elective, but I didn't elect for myself to have this body did I?' Angie said.
'But there's so many women I've heard some absolute horror stories where elective surgery is getting [cancelled]… like their insides are literally falling out of their vaginas and they're like, "oh no, that's elective". It's like, I sometimes feel like we're
