00:00 So, I recently have just come out of surgery for a cyst removal. Now, they believed it
00:21 was a ovarian cyst to begin with and that's what I was told throughout my whole journey
00:26 of this cyst removal. So, in March as of last year, I actually experienced some abdominal
00:33 pain and I was sent to the doctors for an emergency appointment and she told me it could
00:39 be an ovarian cyst. I then got referred to the hospital to have an ultrasound scan and
00:44 an abdominal scan which she then said to me that I had a 40cm cyst inside of me and she
00:53 believed it was on my left ovary at the time. And then in June as of last year, I then got
00:59 referred to a gynaecology which basically told me the same thing and said that I would
01:03 have to have surgery to remove it. Then in the middle of June last year, I then got sent
01:09 for an MRI scan to actually see the severity of the cyst itself. And then in July, I then
01:16 got an appointment for MRI scan results and was told it looked benign and that all the
01:21 blood tests I had came back completely fine. I was then put on a waiting list for my operation.
01:29 They told me that it could be the one with the cut to your stomach or it could be cheo
01:34 surgery but I never took it as gospel from any of them because I thought at the end of
01:38 the day, it's the surgeon that's going to do it and not you. So then in March this year,
01:42 I got a pre-op assessment. So, this is obviously an assessment before you go in for surgery
01:49 and they had to weigh me and take my temperature, more blood tests. I've had so many blood tests,
01:54 it's unbelievable. And then obviously, I had to wait for my surgery date. So, as of the
01:59 7th of June this year, I finally had my surgery for my cyst removal and it weighed around
02:08 two and a half stone which they said they drained 16 litres of fluid obviously through
02:12 cheo surgery which is a hell of a lot of weight to be carrying around extra than I should
02:17 have been. So, during surgery, they actually found out it wasn't actually attached to my
02:21 ovaries. So, it was supposed to have been attached to my left ovary, however, it wasn't.
02:26 So, the man that was doing my surgery had to get another specialist in. It's been now
02:30 six weeks since I had my operation. They've healed really, really well and it's been less
02:35 recovery time. So, when you have keyhole surgery, they say it's less invasive surgery so that
02:40 you can recover quicker and I'm so glad they did it like that because I feel like if I
02:44 had the cut on my stomach in the end, I would have really struggled because I'd have had
02:48 to have longer recovery time but for that six weeks and I'm back to myself and I can
02:53 like go in the shower, wash myself and do everything that I would normally do. It's
02:56 just so nice. So, yeah, that's how they removed my cyst.
02:59 That's right.
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