The agony that's taken over the life of Oyster Bay Town Councilwoman Vicki Walsh the past five years started with a $243 Groupon for the treatment of spider veins at a posh surgical clinic run by a pseudo-celebrity doctor.

But what began as a run-of-the-mill saline injection to remove damaged blood vessels years later has left Walsh in constant physical torment from the metal stents that were inserted in her pelvic region without her knowledge that have since collapsed and can no longer be removed, she said.

"It's really a big blur what happened to me," Walsh, 58, of East Norwich, told Newsday on Thursday, recounting publicly for the first time the details of the seemingly common procedure that changed her life — and pointing the blame at a now shuttered medical clinic run by Dr. David G

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