Married at First Sight Australia skilled Mel Schilling has revealed she’s been identified with most cancers.
The 51-year-old shared the devastating information on Instagram this morning, revealing she was given the analysis simply final week – a mere two weeks earlier than Christmas.
“’YOU HAVE CANCER’. Three little phrases that everybody dreads however nobody ever expects to listen to,” she captioned a photograph of herself hugging her husband Gareth Brisbane and their daughter Madison, 8, in entrance of their Christmas tree.
“Final Thursday my advisor advised me these 3 phrases.”
Schilling defined that she developed “extreme abdomen cramps” final month whereas filming the upcoming new season of MAFS, however she put the ache right down to “all of the journey I’d been doing”. Her GP additionally mentioned it was due “to constipation” and gave her some laxatives to ease the discomfort. Nevertheless, her instincts advised her one thing else was occurring together with her physique.
“Luckily I knew one thing nonetheless wasn’t proper so I booked in for a scan once I returned to the UK,” she shared.
“On Thursday I used to be advised I had colon most cancers and instantly my complete life modified.”
Tomorrow, the MAFS star will present process surgical procedure to take away a 5cm tumour in her colon – a tumour that if “had gone undetected for for much longer would have killed me”.
“Regardless of this I really feel extremely blessed that it’s a most cancers that’s comparatively straightforward to eradicate, I’m anticipated to make a full restoration although it’s a tough street forward,” mentioned Schilling, who has appeared on MAFS because it started in 2015.
“I additionally really feel so fortunate to have an unbelievable assist community round me, each personally and professionally, my family and my TV household have been wonderful this previous few days.”
The star will spend Christmas Day in hospital together with her household after cancelling their plans to journey to Northern Eire to spend the vacations with family members.
“It will likely be so powerful to spend Xmas Day in hospital as an alternative of being surrounded by household however eliminating Terry (what I’ve named my tumour) would be the finest current of all,” she wrote.
“I simply needed to complete by saying that if one thing doesn’t really feel proper, please, please don’t ignore it and in the event you don’t suppose the solutions you’ve got are proper, maintain going till you do, it would simply save your life.”
The life-changing information comes simply three months after former MAFS skilled Trisha Stratford died peacefully at her residence, aged 72.
The New Zealand-born scientific neuropsychologist starred on the 9 relationship program alongside Schilling from its debut in 2015 till her departure in 2020.