Pearl Oakley, 79, of Dudley, West Midlands, is a victim of implantable surgical mesh At 79, Pearl Oakley worries she is doomed to spend the rest of her life in pain and housebound as a result of an operation she had 20 years ago for incontinence going horribly wrong. Christine Doppelt, who is 76, lives in constant fear of the return of the searing agony she endured for years after a similar surgical catastrophe. She found an NHS specialist who was able to help her, but he has since moved to Singapore. Jackie Harvey has only avoided Pearl and Christine’s fate after spending £7,000 on expert private surgery. Helen, who has graced the pages of Tatler magazine but spoke to Good Health on condition of anonymity, is half way through an extensive series of even more costly private surgery to repair the same problem. These four are just some of the more than 6,000 women left maimed or crippled by the use of plastic mesh implants — introduced as a cheap operation for those with incontinence or prolapse. After almost a decade of campaigning by Good Health, the NHS has admitted the material can ‘migrate’ and disintegrate, becoming embedded in…