I called the office the next day and they told me it was cancelled because I'm from out of province," Durham, 54, told CBC Radio's The Morning Edition. Health-care systems are strained in both Alberta and Saskatchewan, with the western provinces seeing record COVID-19 hospitalizations and intensive care capacity stretched beyond normal limits. In Alberta, "they removed the cancer from my nose — they took quite a bit of the inside of my nose out. Her latest medical procedure in Alberta was cancelled earlier this week, just a day before she was supposed to have the surgery. Durham said the only message she has is for more people to get vaccinated so that her surgery does not get cancelled again, as the cancer keeps spreading.

Source: CBC News September 30, 2021 22:41 UTC