It is hard to believe her though, when she’s climbing waterfalls and jumping off ropes having blagged upgraded seats on the plane due to bone pain.
To be fair she hasn't done that for a while. She has done well for a long time considering that she was diagnosed de novo stage 4, but her progression now is a bit sobering to be honest.
Her comment about not living to see her hair grow long has got me actually. I lost all my hair due to chemo for primary cancer and am now several years out. My hair is now still shoulder length due to trimming it so much when it was growing out to try and avoid the mullet, but its growing really quickly now and I am all undecided about whether to go short again or go for it and grow it as long as I can. What a privilege that is to be able to be so assured that I will live long enough to see my hair grow long?
Kris Hallenga's survival this far is almost miraculous considering where she has mets, and that she was also de novo stage 4. It's crazy how different it is for different people. You can have someone else who has Stage 1 primary
breast cancer diagnosis, small tumour, no lymph nodes involved, clear margins or complete response to chemo, all clear after treatment and within a year its returned and spread everywhere and the prognosis is suddenly awful. Again that unusual, but it does happen.
I guess it proves that statistics don't mean anything on an individual level.