Denise Drysdale reveals the scariest health battle she has ever faced
<p>Denise Drysdale has been dealing with terrifying health battles since last October and is just now opening up about the difficult journey.</p>
<p>The upbeat and outspoken breakfast show presenter can hardly believe she’d be sitting down to talk about her health, she tells Sarah Harris on <em>Studio 10</em>.</p>
<p>Last October, Drysdale came face to face with health problems after deciding to take a well deserved break from presenting life while on “the cruise of a lifetime”.</p>
<p>Just one week while on the ship, she suffered from a knee injury that was debilitating.</p>
<p>She explains the injury came while getting out of bed and unfortunately for the rest of her cruise experience, she was forced to sit in a wheelchair. However, this typically painful injury did not stop there for her – the pain became so intense she was forced to cut her losses and come back to Australia to undergo a knee replacement surgery.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Drysdale revealed blood clots soon formed in her knee as the surgery did not go to plan. On top of that, the presenter was hit with more health problems.</p>
<p>She developed headaches and her vision began to get worse.</p>
<p>"I woke up in the middle of the night and rang the ambulance which was a big thing for me to do," she said.</p>
<p>“The doctor told me that if I had waited another day, I might’ve gone blind.”</p>
<p><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7823748/denise-drysdale.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/3ee3eb45088f41d3965110824f4f0420" />Drysdale was diagnosed with a detached retina – a condition where the retina detaches itself from the eyeball.</p>
<p>Just when she thought it might be over, a few months into house arrest to get her health on track – she was hit with another scare.</p>
<p>“I woke up and found a huge lump in my breast," she explained. The lump became apparent on the morning of New Year's Eve.</p>
<p>“I thought maybe it is cancer, maybe it's not.” </p>
<p>Fortunately, the lump turned out to be a cyst – a diagnosis Drysdale was thankful for in the end.</p>
<p>Drysdale says the health battles she faced in such a short span of time forced her to consider the situation carefully.</p>
<p>“I know there are people out there going through the same thing and you just have to hang in there and get to the other end,” she said.</p>
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