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Kris Hallenga
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Kris Hallenga
@KrisPoB
Founder @coppafeelpeople / Sunday Times best selling memoir/ Lived with stage 4 breast cancer for 15 years. Died May 2024.
- ELEVEN years with stage 4 metastatic “terminal” breast cancer. Statistics, stick that in ya pipe and smoke it. Today thousands more will hear “you have cancer”. Please share this so that some hope can reach them. Believe you me I could have done with that 11 years ago today. RT❤️
- Hi my name is Kris and MY LIVER TUMOURS HAVE SHRUNK.
- 9 years since I was told I have stage 4 breast cancer. At time I was told I stood a 1/15000 chance of being diagnosed at 23. I then learnt I had a 1/10 chance of surviving beyond 5 years since it was diagnosed so late. Conclusion: beating the odds is my thing....
- At hospital. Just saw a nurse visibly very upset and having a moment to herself. Who knows what’s making her upset, something from home or work? But it got me thinking MAN they do an incredible job. Nurse lady, I hope you’re ok.
- TEN YEAS AGO TODAY I was diagnosed with stage 4, incurable, secondary, metastatic breast cancer and I AM NOT DEAD. In fact I have never felt so un-dead. Please watch this amazing video my pal made. I’m overwhelmed already and it’s only 9.20am.In the ten years since our founder @KrisPoB was diagnosed with breast cancer, she's become a bit of a pro at making each day great, in some kind of way. So because today's her #cancerversary, we thought we'd share some tips.
00:00 - To whoever needs to read this: i was told I had incurable breast cancer at the age of 23. I didn’t know if I would survive the treatment let alone the disease. I also didn’t know how to get my head around a 2-3 year average survival time. Anyway, that was 14 years ago today…
- And once more I can breathe again. Body scan shows further liver tumour shrinkage and no new cancer. Well done clever body. 💪🏼
GIF - Brain scan results are in: happy to say that for the first time in 12 months I have NO NEW LESIONS and all the previously treated ones (thanks to @willkin111 and his team @QSRC ) have shrunk. Happy happy REALLY BLOODY HAPPY. #livingwithcancer
- I’ve actually just written a piece about how, in February, I get to celebrate ELEVEN years with so-called terminal cancer. It took me writing it to make me realise how WILD that is. Grateful. So fucking grateful.
- My favourite colour is a light shade of grey. Left scan is my liver in November. Right scan is my liver last month. I’ve circled the cancer. This is just one spot of quite a few that have now gone. One naughty spot still remains. Well done clever body.
- By this point last year they’d discovered a total of 54 tiny brain tumours which had to be treated throughout the year. I’ve now not had any new active cancer in my brain for a whole year! I love my clever body and my clever brain and my medical team and my gut instincts v much!
- I need the NHS. I’m dead without it. This was me last year having just had over 20 brain tumours zapped and then a liver biopsy to see what drugs might halt the growth of breast cancer in my body. The NHS kept me alive. I’m denied a vote tomorrow because of my German passport...
- Guess who just got a call from the brain clinic to say her brain tumours are still stable and as dead as a dead thing and that there’s no new active disease? THIS GUY. @ F.U.C.K.....!!!!!"!"""""!!!!!! instagram.com/p/B3xF1dBFnxQ/…
