Katie Thurston has opened up about the difficult side effects she is experiencing as she battles cancer.
The former US Bachelorette star revealed that she is losing her hair and sadly her memory as she continues to undergo treatment.
“I just finished my second month of treatment and if you’re asking how long treatment is, technically forever,” she said in a candid video on her Instagram.
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Thurston revealed in February that she had been diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. A month later she shared that the cancer had metastasized to her liver, putting her at stage 4.
While she doesn’t see an end in sight for her treatment, Thurston says she is “optimistic about medical advancements in the future”.
“Fingers crossed as a stage 4 girly,” she added.
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As for right now, after finishing two months of treatment, Thurston is facing a harsh reality.
“My hair is coming out in an unnatural amount of clumps,” she said adding sarcastically that she’s “working on that”.
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“Um, I’m losing my memory,” she continued.
“That’s great going through customs and them being like, ‘Where are you coming from?’ And I looked at him and was like, ‘I don’t remember. I don’t remember.'”
As she reflected on her memory struggles, Thurston shared that she and her husband Jeff Arcuri recently had a “little disagreement” when her memory left her stumped.
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“I was like, ‘This has happened before.’ He’s like, ‘When?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know, but I know it has,'” she admitted becoming visibly emotional.
She explained that she and her husband are “able to laugh about it now”.
But laughs aside, the reality star reflected that her experience has been difficult and she doesn’t know how to feel about sometimes.
“Cancer is shit. Sometimes I’m like, ‘Stop feeling bad for yourself’ but then other times I’m like, ‘No you’re allowed to feel bad for yourself, cancer f—ing sucks.”
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She added that she is currently at a stage where she has to make big decisions about her treatment which has been a challenge.
Thurston then pointed out that it was National Cancer Survivors Day.
“You know every day that I’m alive I’m a survivor so go me I guess,” she added sarcastically.
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