She may have caused a media frenzy with a prank-gone-wrong when she ‘was found in bed’ with cohort Sam Cable on The Block NZ: Girls vs Boys but Emma Diamond has enough to worry about in her personal life than who she is romantically linked to – the blonde beauty is preparing for surgery.
About two years ago the 27-year-old Dunedinite noticed something wasn’t quite right when she swallowed. Doctors told her not to worry but Emma knew it wasn’t normal – and she was right. She had a cyst on her throat.
Emma has been working hard alongside pal Courtney MacKay on the hit TV3 show.
“It’s not deathly serious but it can restrict your airways so I got it removed,” says Emma. “Now I’ve got a hole in my neck where they removed some bone.”
While that operation took place early last year it has come back. She tells, “They said the cyst on my throat was really rare and won’t come back, but right before I started the show, I had an MRI and the cyst has regrown. It’s already the size of a pea.”
But, sadly, Emma is used to going under the knife as her medical problems started at age 13, when she would suffer excruciating pain every month during her period. She was later diagnosed with endometriosis.
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“I was passing out and spewing up. It was awful and the pain was debilitating. I would pass out in the hallway at home because the pain was so bad. I wasn’t believed to have endometriosis for a while because I was so young.”
After being diagnosed, she has since had four operations to remove it, not only from her ovaries, but on her bowel as well.
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