Word: cyst
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, what Janowski felt was not terribly far from the truth. A small, benign ovarian cyst that had developed weeks before had shifted into a position where it was aggravating her Fallopian tube and cutting off blood flow...
...cyst the size of "a deflated basketball" had postponed Janowski's freshman campaign nearly three years earlier. Now, one day after the best day of her basketball life, Janowski found herself on the verge of one of the worst...
...doctor had told me that there was another cyst, but it was only small and that it wasn't going to bother me if I went out and played, so I didn't think of it," she says. "The night before the ambulance came, the thought flashed through my mind that it might be [the cyst]. But I thought, 'It's so small, what's it going to do?' I didn't really have that thought until I went into the emergency room and they started asking me questions about my history...
...same [type of] cyst that caused it [my freshman year], but instead of being so large, it was just in a difficult position. [The doctors] said there were cysts all around," she says. "So it was bound to go at any time...
...help her adjustment that she was diagnosed with a cyst during a routine physical at the start of her freshman season. The enormous cyst, which bordered on being cancerous, had to be lanced, and one ovary and one Fallopian tube were removed in the process...