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"I was initially quite blasé and assumed it would be a cyst or similar," she said.

The move was, she said, a Hail Mary attempt to get medical treatment through the state’s public benefits for a cyst sprouting behind her right eye that made her vision wobble and her head crackle with pain.

She is currently living on $1,206 a month in and out of her van with a failing shunt in her head, which doctors implanted to treat her cyst.

She said it was only when she started to trying for a baby and was unable to get pregnant that her endometriosis, which had caused a cyst on her ovary, was discovered.

"He has a hernia on his hip the size of a tennis ball, a hole in his heart, no kneecaps, no tibia bone in both of his legs, club foot and a cyst on the bottom of his spine."