Posted on 03/12/2026 6:16:13 AM PDT by jerod
Stephanie Faure has metal plate in her skull after brain surgery
Stephanie Faure knew something was wrong when she woke up feeling pressure in her head.
Surgeons had opened up her skull 14 months earlier to remove brain tumours. They performed a craniotomy that left her with a metal plate, screws and a scar.
So when she looked more closely at her head on Sunday and saw what looked like a screw pushing out through her skin, she decided to go to the hospital.
She said she waited five and a half hours at Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon. When she finally got to see a doctor, she said he told her it wasn't a screw and that it was a cyst.
"He wasn't even looking at it," Faure told CBC News, standing outside the hospital entrance on Monday. "You could pretty visibly see what it was. And he was just telling me it wasn't what I was seeing."
She said she asked to get a second opinion from another doctor or nurse, but was told "No," and was asked to leave.
"He said he had other people to help," she said.
Boyfriend removes screw
Faure went home, and that night her boyfriend used a pair of tweezers to pull the screw out.
"It definitely wanted to come out," she said, almost laughing. "It was moving as the day went, so it wasn't too hard [to remove] by that time."
She showed CBC News the screw — a tiny, silver screw, smaller than a thumbnail — the kind that holds a titanium plate to a human skull.Boyfriend removes screw Faure went home, and that night her boyfriend used a pair of tweezers to pull the screw out.
"It definitely wanted to come out," she said, almost laughing. "It was moving as the day went, so it wasn't too hard [to remove] by that time."
She showed CBC News the screw — a tiny, silver screw, smaller than a thumbnail — the kind that holds a titanium plate to a human skull.
Faure still has brain cancer. She's not in active chemotherapy, but takes medication daily.
She's had a lot of experience with the health-care system and has felt dismissed by doctors before, but Faure said this was more frustrating because of how "very clearly" she knew what was happening but the doctor didn't believe her.
In a statement, the Saskatchewan Health Authority said it takes concerns about patient experiences and interactions seriously. It directed patients with complaints to its client concern specialists process.
The statement said the health authority could not comment on specific cases due to privacy legislation. No one was made available for an interview...
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No surprise there. I have very little respect for doctors anymore ever since they pushed the Covid vaccine.
Government health care sure is swell. And given that this happened in Canada, the woman is lucky they didn’t force her into assisted suicide.
🙁
This is the healthcare the Dims want in the US.
She definitely had a screw loose.
At least she was willing to accept her boyfriend's help. It's not about the nail
Which is likely how she got the brain cancer to begin with.
Safe...and......effective 💀
And I meant to say, Covid jab not Covid vaccine
Yeah, right. Could there be a more tone-deaf, banal corporate statement that simply gets churned out with zero thought behind it?
They still might do that. Could be why she had the boyfriend remove it.
I doubt the MAID program will be voluntary for long. The nose is under the tent and the people that pushed starting it won’t be done until they set the standards that there will be no healthcare unless they deem you still worth it. Saves money for their crappy socialist health system and it is a big plus for the funeral business.
At least, I assumed he was joking...
yep
Army doctors left a medical sponge in my BIL’s back when he was wounded in Vietnam.
He was in excruciating pain for a month before someone finally believed him enough to take another X-ray. And there it was
Unfortunately by that point, it left enough scar tissue to damage his spine permanently.
It's hard to believe it's been 13 years since that video was posted. That should be mandatory viewing.
This is a quick peek into our future of the dumprats have their way.
Welcome to the 21st century. Don't believe your lying eyes. Reality is not the thing you experience. Reality is that the Authorities tell you.
Exactly. That little bit of newspeak says it all.
I would’ve taken a lawyer with me and found another doctor myself.
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