Australian Olympic Jessicah Schipper had a great Olympic Trials meet, and qualified for London not only in the 200, but also in the 100 butterfly.
But it seems as though nothing can ever be easy for the Australians. The latest in a string of freak injuries, illnesses, and accidents down under saw Schipper in the hospital for an emergency surgery to get her appendix removed.
And that wasn’t even the scary part.
According to her Twitter account, once in surgery, it was revealed that her’s wasn’t an appendix problem, rather she had a bleeding ovarian cyst.
Ovarian cysts are often benign, but when they grow to a certain size they can be very painful, and in about 5% of cases they can be cancerous.
Schipper is in good spirits after the surgery (she usually is in good spirits), and is already back home from what is ultimately a fairly minor procedure to correct a potentially serious problem. She will, however, have two weeks out of the pool, which could severely affect her training just three months away from the Olympics. This could affect the decision-making process for Australia’s women’s medley relay, where moving Coutts to the freestyle leg and putting Schipper in the final on the butterfly was a plausible option.
We’ll keep you up to date on her recovery as we hear more.