Gwenda, QLD
- Appendix
In 2009 I was diagnosed with this challenge, PMP, I didn’t know if I would make it passed the ‘maybe five years’ that I was given if I had the surgery and ‘two years’ if I didn’t have it.
Name: Demi
NET Type:
On the 8th of October 2019 I found out I was expecting my second child. Less than two weeks later I was rushed in for an emergency surgery for appendicitis and two weeks after the surgery I was diagnosed with a NET inside my removed appendix which needed further surgery (a right hemicoloectomy).
We were told to either terminate our baby or be fully prepared to loose it as the surgery wasn’t compatible with sustaining an unborn baby.
During all of this I was also suffering severe hypermesis gravidarum (severe morning sickness). After my larger surgery a combination of a reaction to codine and the HG caused my body to start shutting down.
Somehow against all odds our baby and I survived. They then told us there was no possibility of our baby being born healthy. Again, she beat impossible odds and we found out at 20 weeks she was a girl and perfectly healthy.
She arrived early but healthy at 38 weeks gestation on the 5th of June 
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I still need a PET scan and a colonoscopy in the coming weeks to check they definitely got all of the cancer but we are both doing well.
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