“Today” show contributor Jill Martin gave an update on her battle with breast cancer after recently undergoing a double mastectomy after being diagnosed in July.
The 47-year-old lifestyle contributor opened up about the “earth-shattering” news and how she and her family have been affected.
“They actually test the nodes in real time, so I found out the results of the biopsy when I woke up from the four-hour surgery,” she added. “There is always a small possibility that cancerous cells could have escaped, so the rest of the meeting was dedicated to planning out my long road ahead, and what the doctor suggests I do to prevent this insidious disease from coming back.”
Martin also talked about how the hardest thing has been watching her family “Watch me go through this. It shakes a family and a household. The past three weeks have felt like a lifetime.”
Martin said this week she will meet with her doctor to learn what's next in this process. She said she already knows she will have a full hysterectomy to “decrease the risk of ovarian cancer” due to “fibroid issues in the past” and said she'll have to “take anti-hormonal drugs for 5 years.”
“I will most likely need chemotherapy because of the aggressiveness of the tumor,” Martin wrote. “That is the part that hit me the hardest — the idea of chemo.”
“Cancer has knocked me down. It has,” she added. “I used to jump out of bed every day to begin work, but now every day is a choice. Do I feel like staying under the covers and crying? Yes. Every day. But I did that when I first started recovery … and little by little, like today, I am choosing to get up. I am choosing to fight.”
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Cancer is a heinous disease. I lost a mother and two sisters to breast cancer. I lost two aunts, one to lung cancer and another to ovarian cancer. I also lost my husband to prostate cancer. Pray for this woman as she goes through this long arduous fight.