Signing Her Life Away

First, the obstetrician warned Favell that the surgery might reveal that things were worse than they appeared on the CT scan. “He warned me there might be more than one, and they could be attached to other organs,” she said. Of course, the surgery would also come with all the traditional risks that medical procedures present.

To Favell, it felt like she was signing her life away, even though she knew that her only hope for survival. So, terribly scared, the young woman agreed to have the surgery. In the blink of an eye, it seemed, the time arrived for Favell to enter surgery and have her cyst removed. She just hoped they did not find it had spread.