Katie Thurston goes by way of the wringer in her Stage 4 breast most cancers battle.
The “Bachelorette” alum, 34, gave a heartbreaking well being replace in an Instagram video posted Sunday.
“I just finished my second month of treatment and if you’re asking how long treatment is, technically forever,” Thurston instructed her followers. “I am optimistic about medical advancements in the future — fingers crossed as a stage 4 girly.”
“But right now, after finishing two months of my medication, my hair is coming out in an unnatural amount of clumps,” the truth star shared. “I’m losing my memory. That’s great. Going through customs and them being like, ‘Where are you coming from?’ And I looked at him and I was like, ‘I don’t remember.’”
Thurston defined that she just lately bought right into a “little disagreement” along with her husband, comic Jeff Arcuri, the place she couldn’t defend herself due to her reminiscence points.
“I was like, ‘This has happened before,’” she recalled. “He was like, ‘When?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know but I know it has!’ We’re able to laugh about it now.”
“Cancer is s–t,” Thurston continued. “Sometimes I’m like, ‘Stop feeling bad for yourself.’ Other times I’m like, ‘You’re allowed to feel bad for yourself. Cancer f—ing sucks.’”
Thurston defined that she’s reached the part of her therapy the place she has to make “big decisions” about easy methods to deal with her liver. She stated she’s opted for histotripsy, which makes use of centered ultrasound to destroy most cancers cells with out reducing into the physique.
“It’s National Cancer Survivors Day,” she stated. “Every day that I’m alive, I’m a survivor. So go me, I guess.”
Thurston initially competed on Matt James’ season of “The Bachelor” in 2021 after which turned the star of “The Bachelorette” Season 17.
One month earlier than her intimate marriage ceremony to Acuri, 37, in New York Metropolis in March, Thurston publicly revealed her breast most cancers prognosis.
“I experienced a range of emotions over the past two weeks. Despair. Anger. Sadness. Denial. And then strength. Purposeful. Ready. I cried a lot,” she stated in a message on Instagram.
In March, Thurston shared that her most cancers had unfold to her liver and was Stage 4.
“I know stage four can sound very scary, and it can be,” she stated. “However, given that I am triple positive and the spots on my liver are fairly small and detected early, I feel very optimistic on my outcome.”
Thurston’s most cancers was found after she discovered a lump on her breast, which led to her getting a mammogram.
