“On this day last year, I started chemotherapy,” the popular British Peloton instructor wrote onInstagram.She had been diagnosed with breast cancer when she was just35 years old last August.
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“Today, I had the privilege of announcing an event I am hosting (that sold out within minutes 🥹), which is aimed at raising awareness and money for@coppafeelpeople- acharitythat [will] educate, encourage and empower people (especially young people) to ensure breast cancer is diagnosed early and correctly.”
“I feel SO lucky to be well, and proud for this moment. It’s taken a lot to get here, and I’m really ready to hopefully make a difference x.”
“That really is a sentence I NEVER imagined writing.”
“I trusted my gut and got a second opinion,” she wrote. “That saved my life. Check, and check again.”
She said she was inspired to give up alcohol after her cancer diagnosis.
“At first, it was to ensure that I was as healthy as possible “ during treatment,she wrote on Instagram. “Then it quickly turned into the best decision I made for myself, because everything everyone says about stopping drinking, for me, continues to be true.”
While she said that her mental clarity and productivity improved, “I think my initial reason for stopping drinking was definitely more intense than it would be for most. Deep in the VERY early stages of traumatic grief, and shock, drinking too much to try and numb an ounce of the pain in any way possible, and then diagnosed with cancer a few weeks later, it could have been a recipe for disaster.”
source: people.com
