Another Testimonial for Socialized Medicine!

Fake blood gets woman hernia op

A woman mixed cranberry juice with crumbled biscuits to simulate her own blood and get herself admitted to hospital.

Trizka Litton phoned 999 and called an ambulance, claiming to have vomited blood.

She was admitted to Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry, where she underwent surgery to correct a serious hiatus hernia.

She faked being ill because she was ill? How's that work?

Mrs Litton said she had no choice as she had been waiting seven months for an operation.

She told The Times newspaper: "I carried a heavy burden of guilt and shame at being forced to cheat and lie.

"But that vanished when doctors told me just how near death I had been."
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She was told that she needed surgery in 2001 after coughing up large amounts of blood.

Her stomach had been pushed up into her chest cavity and was pressing on her heart and lungs.

However, her surgery was cancelled three times in three weeks, and finally she decided to take matters into her own hands in November last year.

The Times has more details and even consulted a makeup artist:

Julia Cruttenden, the principal of Greasepaint, an international school for stage, television and film make-up, said that she normally used washing-up liquid or golden syrup with red and yellow food colourings and a dash of coffee. Ms Cruttenden, who has been making fake blood for 25 years, heats the ingredients slightly to get them to mix.

She said: “Cranberry juice on its own might be a bit pink. You might get a nice congealed and scabby-looking blood with biscuits. Using biscuits might just work; I’ll have to try that.

It's a medical breakthrough!