Residents angry Horizon didn't renew popular Woodstock eye doctor's contract
CBC
At the age of 78, Jean Reed tries her best to live life on her own terms.
The Knowlesville woman lives 26 kilometres east of Florenceville-Bristol, with her dog, Dandy, and cat, Spike, in a home she and her family built from the ground up in an area with no cell reception and surrounded by steep, forested hills.
While she manages as best she can, she needs cataract surgery and was devastated when a procedure scheduled for Sept. 14 was cancelled. Horizon Health had not renewed her eye doctor's contract.
"It would just change my life," Reed said of the surgery.
She was diagnosed in January with cataracts and was told a new ophthalmologist, Dr.River Kattan, would be able to do the surgery at the Upper River Valley Hospital in Waterville, just north of Woodstock, a manageable distance from Reed's home.
But on Sept. 10, the hospital called Reed to cancel.
"They gave me no reason and they did not reschedule it, and they wouldn't tell me anything else," Reed said.
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