Followed by eight rounds of chemotherapy—a treatment regimen generally covered under high-premium private oncology insurance plans or hospital indemnity insurance.
In April 2019, she had the first operation to remove her appendix, navel, and part of the abdominal cavity.
Later that year, at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, specialists attempted to remove all abnormal tissue during a 12-hour procedure often called “the mother of all surgeries”.
The surgical team removed her gallbladder, spleen, large bowel, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, cervix, rectum, and omentum—a loss that would raise significant OB-GYN liability and surgical malpractice concerns in any legal review.
A portion of her stomach and small bowel, as well as the surface layer of her liver and both sides of her diaphragm, were also excised.
