Susie just before having her operation

A woman says she saved more than £10,000 by having knee surgery abroad after seven years of struggling. Cardiff-born Susie Marks says she has “got her life back” after travelling to Lithuania for a robot-assisted knee replacement, following more than seven years of struggling after an accident.

The 59-year-old teacher, originally from Cardiff and now living in Abergavenny, was involved in a major car crash in 2017. She suffered six broken ribs and a damaged sternum; her injuries were so severe that she didn’t immediately realise her knee had also been injured when it struck the dashboard.

Once the pain in her ribs began to ease, she noticed the pain in her knee getting worse. “I went to the doctor and had an X-ray. They could see there was a prob

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