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| Title: | Topics of Interest to Women |
| Notice: | V3 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open. |
| Moderator: | REGENT::BROOMHEAD |
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| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 30 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1078 |
| Total number of notes: | 52352 |
865.0. "180 Pound Ovarian Cyst
" by ESCROW::MCCLURE (MOD ENTRY MOANS_V2/FILE=CLO:MOANS 0 12-DEC-1989 09:07 1 1) Thu Jun 06 1991 13:14
KEARNEYSVILLE, W. VA. A woman who had a 180-pound ovarian cycst removed is now
enjoying the simple pleasures of life, like sitting in a chair and riding in a
car.
The 40-year old Jefferson County resident, who has not bvee identified, weighed
708 pounds before surgery May 2 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to remove
the cyst and about 100 pounds of tissue that supported it.
She was able to go home last Friday, in a subcompact car.
The woman, who spent most of the past four years in bed, now weighs 336 pounds.
"I didn't go anywhere. When I did, people stared and poked fun at me," the
woman told the Sunday Journal of Martinsburg. "I hated myself. Lots of times
I thought to myself 'if I would just die, my family would be better off.'"
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This article is in the Boston Globe today.
Imagine it! Could this be true?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 865.1 | Amazing things do happen! | RIPPLE::KENNEDY_KA | | Thu Jun 06 1991 16:00 | 6 |
| Apparantly this is true. I showed a co-worker the base note and she
said she saw it on the news about a week ago. They showed the cyst and
she said it was immense. It took 7 people to move it. Too bad That's
Incredible isn't on....this would be great for that show!
Karen
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| 865.2 | The Globe's here... | MLCSSE::LANDRY | just passen' by...and goin' nowhere | Mon Jun 10 1991 11:38 | 3 |
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Yea, but remember, it was in the GLOBE! (which seems to be more
and more like the Enquirer...)
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| 865.3 | sad but true | BENONI::JIMC | illegitimi non insectus | Tue Jun 18 1991 14:10 | 8 |
| yes it was true and it missed the record by almost half.
I once worked with a woman who developed that type of ovarian cyst,
hers was as big as a football and had apparently developed in a
period of about a month. If she had ignored it, it would have been
much larger.
jimc
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