Sandi Toksvig
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Oh, darling, I was written up in The Lancet, which is a medical magazine.
I had the largest ovarian cyst ever seen.
And the real issue was not the cyst itself, but the fact that it was crushing all my organs.
They had never seen something like it.
In order to, I think they had to wear wellingtons during the operation.
I think there was an awful lot of liquid.
But I have a scar about 10, 11 inches across my whole system because they couldn't get to it.
My God, Sandy, that's extraordinary.
Why not have something interesting?
No, it took a very long time.
I had lost a ridiculous amount of weight.
I was very poorly, very weak.
Did you think you were going to die?
I did, because they didn't know what it was.
I had one of the world's first ultrasounds, and they thought it was a tumor.
So there were... It was not a...