20-pound tumor removed from 11-year-old school girl
22 December FOX News
Doctors found a 20-pound tumor in an 11-year-old Florida girl's
stomach after the girl's middle school informed her mother the child was
being harassed by bullies who claimed she was pregnant. First Coast News
reports the now 12-year-old girl's mother Janet Roberts was shocked when
she was called into a meeting at her daughter's school and told word
around the school was her child was pregnant because the girl had an
extended stomach.
“I was shock,” Roberts told the station. “To me it was a joke at
first.ÓRoberts said she began giving her daughter pregnancy tests every
two weeks, but every one was negative. Meanwhile, her daughter's stomach
kept growing. Three months later, Roberts decided to take her to the
hospital, where doctors discovered the tumor.“It was 19 pounds, well 20
pounds in size,” Roberts told First Coast News, “But because of her
size, they had to drain two liter bottle of it before they could pull it
out of her.”
The tumor was benign, but Roberts says her daughter is struggling
with the aftermath of her ordeal and the bullying she suffered. She has
a hard time dealing with what happen to her. She's writing notes about
what happened and how the people treated her,” she said.
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