Kerry Dinallo can hardly recall what life was like before her spinal surgery with Dr. Alexios Apazidis.

The taste of solid food. Visits with friends or the anticipation of a first date.

They seem like distant memories to the 62-year-old Amityville woman.

Three years ago this week, the Deer Park orthopedic surgeon, who's been accused of fraudulently copying and pasting dozens of operative reports verbatim for patients involved in home, workplace and vehicular accidents, severed Dinallo's jugular vein during spinal fusion surgery, leaving her near death on the operating table, court records show.

WHAT NEWSDAY FOUND

Kerry Dinallo , of Amityville, said she twice nearly died following spinal surgery performed by Dr. Alexios Apazidis, of Deer Park, and now can no longer eat solid food.

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