This woman had 10 organs surgically removed, here’s why

Meet 32-year-old Jenny Ramage from Bristol.

Jenny recently underwent an incredible nine-hour operation to have chunks of 10 internal organs removed.

She had her entire upper body cut open and her right colon, spleen, appendix, gall bladder, umbilicus, ovaries and fallopian tubes were removed entirely. see the sad pic after the cut..

She had repeatedly consulted medics over her tummy cramps but they were dismissed as everything from period pains, to wind, bloating, appendicitis and irritable bowel.

But after months of consultations a doctor finally noticed a tumour on her appendix, which had burst and covered her internal organs with a ‘cancerous jelly’.

She explained: ‘When they opened me up, they found it was everywhere. It spread right down from my diaphragm to my bladder.’

Parts of her liver, diaphragm, kidney were also chopped out but luckily the jelly hadn’t reached any of her critical organs.

But despite the scar’s enormity, Jenny loves her scar.

The scar doesn’t really bother me – I see it as a survival trophy. I have been very lucky, I have made a full recovery. There’s nothing I can’t do, nothing I can’t eat or drink.

But obviously my fertility was compromised, but I still hope to have children someday with the eggs that were frozen just in time.

She spent three weeks in Basingstoke Hospital recovering but has now made a full recovery and is campaigning to raise awareness of the condition, pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP).

pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP)

This is the same rare disease that killed Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn.

Basingstoke Hospital is only one of only two hospitals in the country that specialise in treating PMP.

Jenny has now turned her focus to raising awareness of the condition, as the spreading tumour can bloat the abdomen and be mistaken for ‘middle-aged spread’.

Jenny said: ‘The more people who know about PMP the more lives can be saved, the more people can be diagnosed and get treatment. It’s all down to a lack of awareness.

‘If I hadn’t been diagnosed, it would have suffocated my organs and I would have died. It can be a slow growing cancer or it can kill quite quickly, it depends person to person.

Source: Metro Uk