Updated: 1 May 2021, 10:12
A 22-STONE gran was refused a place at a care home after being described as a fire hazard , her outraged family claim.
Former headteacher Susan Lynas, 75, piled on the pounds after breaking her back last year, landing her in hospital and unable to move.
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Susan Lynas was hospitalised during the pandemic causing her to gain weightCredit: SWNS
The gran-of-three, who was unable to get physiotherapy due to the pandemic, has been in an interim care home, but her family were looking for a more permanent option.
Daughter Chaanah Lynas, 33, had hoped Susan could stay in Woodlands Nursing Home, which has hoists for people weighing up to 27 stone.
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Susan Lynas (pictured, right, with her granddaughter) uses a wheelchair after breaking her back and surviving Covid last year. She is said to have been left shocked and upset after being told she was too heavy for her preferred nursing home A WOMAN whose 75-year-old mother has been refused a place in a local nursing home because of her weight says it “screams discrimination”. Chaanah Lynas, from Livingston in West Lothian, says her mother, Susan Lynas, was left “shocked and upset” after being told her application to Woodlands Nursing Home had been rejected. Mrs Lynas is 22 stone and requires a wheelchair after breaking her back in a fall at her home in February last year.