Chloe Goodman reveals horror as appendicitis and cyst nearly left her dead after a doctor dismissed agony as ‘period pain’
The Ex On The Beach star’s life was in danger as her appendix and a cyst was just hours away from bursting
CHLOE Goodman was just hours from death after doctors REFUSED to believe she had appendicitis and dismissed her excruciating agony as period pain.
The reality star’s health took a sudden turn for the worst on Saturday morning when she was crippled in agony but as she phoned for help she was unaware that her appendix had a large cyst on it and both were on the verge of bursting, putting her life in grave danger.
Scroll to the bottom of the page to see an image of Chloe's deadly appendix - but be warned, it's not-for-the-faint-hearted
In an exclusive interview with The Sun Online the 23-year-old relives her ordeal and reveals if she hadn’t insisted on doctors operating on her she may not be alive today.
“I woke up on Saturday morning feeling fine but within half an hour I was screaming in pain,” says Chloe, speaking from her home in Doncaster.
“I’m usually a really healthy girl, I’m never ill or in hospital and the last thing I was thinking was calling the ambulance, but the pain was excruciating and I was vomiting, so I phoned my mum crying my eyes out. While on the phone to her I passed out and she immediately called an ambulance.
“The next thing I knew the paramedics were in my bedroom and then putting me in the ambulance. They gave 8mg of morphine and the maximum they can give someone is 10mg, and it was the only thing that could stop me passing out.
“By the time I got to A&E the pain was still so bad I wanted to die. The doctors were 100 percent certain that my appendix was about to burst and that I needed to go to theatre because it was life threatening.
“At the time it didn’t register that I might die, I had gone from being fine to in so much pain, that I just didn’t care about anything other than getting it out. I was so desperate, I didn’t care what I looked like or that the surgery was botched, I just needed this pain to stop.”
However when Chloe was taken to the surgical ward she was the victim of a 36 hour ordeal of blunders which she believes could have resulted in her losing her life.
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“I went to surgical assessment and they told me they weren’t going to do the operation as they thought it might have been some ruptured cysts on my ovaries. I was arguing with them as I knew it wasn’t my womb or ovaries, but they said they wouldn’t take my word and were just going to do an ultrasound in the morning.
“I knew if my appendix burst I was f**ked and all they were doing was pilling me up to my eyeballs, so I felt out of it.
“I had the ultrasound and was told it was fluid and a ruptured cyst, but I know my own body and I knew they were wrong.”
After her ultrasound her ordeal was made all the more stressful.
“I was already upset that they were telling me it was to with my ovaries when I knew they were wrong and it was something life threatening. But then a different consultant came into my room and told me, ‘I’ve seen a lot of appendicitis, this isn’t it, you’ve got period pain.’
“She treated me like she thought I was just some silly little 23-year-old girl and she was happy just to send me home.
“I was furious and told the nurses to get her away from me and refused to see her again. I then demanded to see the surgeon and if it wasn’t for me being so persistent they would have sent me home.
“I now know if I’d gone home I could’ve died."
When she finally saw the surgeon he agreed that there was something more sinister causing Chloe’s pain and by Sunday night she was operated on.
“They didn’t know what they were going to find, but agreed to do keyhole surgery.
“When I woke up they told me that not only was my appendix was just two hours away from bursting, which would have been deadly and poisoned my organs, but I had a cyst on it double the size that was also about to rupture. The surgeons admitted they were shocked it hadn’t all burst already.
“I had internal bleeding in my pelvis as well, which I think must have been the fluid they thought they had seen in the ultrasound.”
However the doctors still continued to give Chloe contradicting information.
“The next morning they tried to tell me they had removed cysts from my ovaries, which was heartbreaking and scary as I was worried I couldn’t have kids. I forced them to reread the notes and they admitted they were wrong and it was just my appendix.
“If I wasn’t a strong person and my family weren’t persistent and refused to let them have the bed, they would have sent me home and would have died from my appendix bursting.”
Chloe says that her traumatic experience has changed her outlook on life and credits her mum for saving her life.
WARNING: Graphic content below. Read down to see Chloe's cyst.
“I went to sleep on Friday night as happy as Larry in my world and woke up in an ambulance.
“I will forever be grateful for my mum calling them ambulance as I would have been lying there alone if she hadn’t.
“If it wasn’t for my mum then I definitely wouldn’t be… where I am today. We caught it just in time.”
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