Chioma Ubogagu returns to the field – Equalizer Soccer

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It started with a stomach ache after a training session with Tottenham Hotspur FC.

Chioma Ubogagu turned to Spurs defender Amy Turner and tried to describe it in the only way she knew how: “It felt like death.”

She told The Equalizer that she is not one to rush to the doctor. But once she got home, Ubogagu started vomiting and knew something was wrong.

From there, she informed the medical team, called her mother, Tina, who is a nurse, and went to the ER. Blood tests showed nothing and after she insisted on further tests, she was faced with a harsh reality. Ubogagu, an otherwise healthy young English footballer, had a mass in her abdomen.

“The way she looked at me scared me,” Ubogagu said. “It was just a very uncertain diagnosis.”