For Michelle Moore, hot summer days were the worst. Since her late 20s, the 58-year-old council worker had been living with painful and disfiguring varicose veins.
The bulging, twisted blood vessels had formed on her legs after Michelle had her third child and had worsened over the years. What started as faint blue lines became knotted ‘golf balls’ on her legs that were painful and itchy.
It would take decades before Michelle finally had a 15-minute procedure that banished the veins for good. So why did it take so long to get to that point?
The condition, which affects one in five adults,
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