"Operation cancelled 4th time"

Yesterday I got the phone call I had been expecting to tell me my 4th scheduled surgery was cancelled, I could not stop crying.

I fell down stairs last year and broke my left wrist and left leg where the bone meets the knee, In a wheelchair and non weight bearing for 3 months and finally out of wheelchair and now only mobile with crutches almost a year later. After physio didn't help my leg, I had a CT scan and was referred toward the end of last year October for urgent surgery to remove the pin and have an arthroscopy with either a new pin with a bone graft or possibly will need a new knee, I am in my mid 50s.

I cannot bend or fully straighten my leg and am in pain a lot of the time, Surgery scheduled twice for late last year and the last time I actually was in gown in Ward waiting and then was cancelled. New date earlier this year, cancelled day before and now a few days away... cancelled yesterday. I have a new date a few months away which will be exactly one year on from my accident. And who knows if that will happen? It's now 18 weeks on from my urgent referral and I am seriously worried that the delay will cause permanent damage to my leg.

In the meantime I cannot walk, cannot work and have been put on anti-depressants as I can see no end to this.