The Bachelorette alum Katie Thurston shared an emotional replace amid her stage 4 breast most cancers battle.
Posting a clip of herself via her Instagram Story on Friday, August 29, Thurston, 34, confessed she was “crying on a Friday evening” as she anxious that she had contracted COVID.
“Having breast most cancers has you actually Googling the whole lot and questioning the whole lot. I'm exhausted. So exhausted,” the fact star stated within the Instagram put up. “However that is my off week for my medication and so this was purported to be the week the place I like recuperate and begin to really feel good once more and no matter.”
Thurston advised her followers that she had ordered a COVID take a look at as a result of arrive “shortly” however wasn't certain if she was “overthinking” issues.
“I'm nervous as a result of I don't truly know what occurs, I do know it feels like I'll cry. Why am I going to cry?” a teary Thurston stated.
She continued, “Ugh. Breast most cancers simply has you, like, freaking out about the whole lot. You recognize, you're like, ‘Oh, what's COVID like when you may have breast most cancers? What's COVID like when you may have low white blood cell counts? Perhaps I'm simply f***ing crashing out, I don't know guys.”
After wiping tears from eyes, Thurston was decided to look on the brilliant facet.
Katie Thurston. (Picture courtesy of Katie Thurston/Instagram)
“To be sincere although, I additionally ordered ice cream with my COVID take a look at so the whole lot's going to be OK right this moment,” she stated.
In a comply with up Instagram Story put up, Thurston shared a photograph of her COVID take a look at as effectively her Ben & Jerry's ice cream buy.
“No COVID. Only a drained hypochondriac with breast most cancers,” she wrote, confirming the take a look at returned a detrimental end result.
After discovering a lump in November 2024, Thurston was recognized with breast most cancers in February 2025 and divulged the well being growth by way of her Instagram Story that very same month..
“I had a small lump in my breast across the 10'oclock [sic] spot,” she wrote on the time. “I found it myself. Thought possibly it was my interval [or] possibly it was muscle soreness from figuring out. However, finally, this lump by no means went away.”
Whereas having fun with her previous couple of moments in Greece on trip along with her husband, comic Jeff Arcuri, former Bachelorette star Katie Thurston took to Instagram to share a life replace. Within the three-minute lengthy video, Thurston revealed she is making ready for a “large check-in scan” on July 7. The check-in is “to see how the meds […]
In March, the most cancers unfold to her liver, which put Thurston in stage 4.
“I do know stage 4 can sound very scary, and it may be,” she stated in a March Instagram video. “Nevertheless, on condition that I'm triple optimistic and the spots on my liver are pretty small and detected early, I really feel very optimistic on my end result.
