Irene Trebble, of Charterhouse, has celebrated her 100th birthdayand may have been disabled for life if she hadn't agreed to be aguinea pig patient for a pioneering operation in 1920.
Irene spent her 100th birthday laughing among friends at NewholmeCare Home in Great Baddow, Essex where she now lives close to herfamily.
But things could have been very different if she hadn't, as anine-year-old girl, had life-changing surgery which enabled her towalk for the first time in her life.
Irene's daughter, Jannetta, said: "Mum was taken without a wordof explanation to the Bristol hospital by her mother and just leftthere.
"Three months later her mum …
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