Surgeons were performing a gastric bypass - creating a small ‘pouch’ the size of an egg by dividing the top of Emma's stomach from the rest - when they found the soccer-ball-sized cyst.
I was told my life was in danger unless I underwent a gastric bypass, an operation to restrict the amount of food my stomach could hold, limit the calories and nutrients my body absorbed and modify how my gut hormones worked to reduce my appetite.
Surgeons would create a small ‘pouch’ – just the size of an egg - by dividing the top of my stomach from the rest.
At 24, Emma underwent a gastric bypass to reduce the amount of food her stomach could hold.
Surgeons spotted the cyst on my right ovary soon after making the first incision between my breasts to begin bypass surgery.
