Re: Where do babies come from? =)

April 25, 2001

Hi Georgia,

I understand the wisdom of Mother Nature doubling up on everything (ie, two

testicles, two ovaries, two eyes, etc, etc) but I thought that if one is

taken away the chances of having a baby decreases. But I guess not with your

twins. =)

Mark

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Reply-To: NF2_Crew

To: <NF2_Crew >

Subject: cysts

Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:06:56 +1000

Dear Mark,

I'm not , but I can answer your question about ovarian cysts. Mother

Nature, in her wisdom, had a back up plan in case people's reproductive bits

and pieces went wrong. Just as men have two testes, women have two ovaries

and two fallopian tubes. If one ovary and/or tube is lost for whatever

reason, the other one should still function normally.

In my own case, when I was 13 I began getting terrible abdominal pains.

Many and various doctors put it down to puberty, growing pains (truly!),

grumbling appendix and the desire to get out of school. As if I didn't have

better ways of avoiding school. Anyway on Easter Saturday 1981, yes that's

20 years ago folks, I had such agonizing pain in my side that Mum took me to

the hospital where the pain ceased. In the afternoon I threw up the half a

chocolate I had eaten, then had a bath and collapsed on the floor behind the

locked door. Doctor no. 4 for the day said, Hmm, appendix, take her to

hospital Mrs. Rickard. What they found was a ruptured cyst the size of an

orange, and a whole lot of pus and goo and mucky stuff. Appendix was fine

but they took it anyway. I was on a drip for 4 days and was sooo sick with

peritonitis I thought I was going to die. Then two years later I had a

laparoscopy to see what was causing the pain on the other side but it was

inconclusive. However they told Mum that I was most likely infertile. Now

this is where the story of Katrina and Madel comes in........

Georgia

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