Swimming great describes ‘scary time’ after chance discovery during MRI scan for hip injury
Australian swimming champion Ariarne Titmus has had surgery to remove benign tumours from an ovary.
The women’s 400 metres freestyle world record holder discovered the tumours by chance when having an MRI scan on a sore hip. The Olympic and world champion feared implications from the tumours would deny her a chance to be a mother, something she described as her “biggest dream”.But Titmus said she now felt blessed that surgery on Thursday successfully removed the tumours.
“For a while I’ve been managing an ongoing hip injury and three weeks ago I had an MRI to suss out exactly what was going on,” Titmus posted on Instagram on Friday.“However it was something else that the doctors picked up on that made everything else seem irrelevant.“For anyone that knows me, they’d know I’d give up anything in the world to be a mother, it’s my biggest dream so this was a scary time for me.
“Of course in these moments you think of the worst-case scenario and I was petrified of potentially losing the ovary or there being implications that could affect me and my desire to have children one day.
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