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Two weeks after being identified with breast cancer, ABC News reporter Amy Robach updated her colleagues with an electronic mail updating her status and offering thanks for all their support all through a tough time.
Robach underwent a mammogram live to tell the tale Just right Morning America sooner than finding out a month later that she had breast cancer. She has taken break day from broadcasting to bear a bilateral mastectomy.
Full textual content of her letter to ABC colleagues beneath:
Satisfied Friday Everyone!
It may be chilly and gloomy out of doors these days but it’s warm and sunny in my world. This message is lengthy past due…it has been weighing closely on me how much gratitude I owe each one in all you. The incredible outpouring of fortify from ABC started from the first moment I received my analysis. telePhone calls, emails, playing cards, flora, blankets, care packages, meals, pajamas, slippers, help with insurance, medical advice….The checklist goes on and on…It was once actually overwhelming what number of of you considered the whole lot any person may be able to need or need right through a time of scientific drawback. It introduced so many tears of pleasure to my eyes and warmed my heart greater than you’ll ever understand to look what my ABC domestic did for me and for my whole household. Actually, there had been so many emails, it’ll take me weeks to get back to every considered one of you!
Physically and emotionally I have been throughout the ringer, but I am rising on the opposite facet so much superior. I have a higher appreciation for existence, for well being and for how such easy acts of kindness can be so extremely highly effective. I am having a look through a special lens now…and I am grateful for that as neatly. There used to be my existence prior to October thirtieth and now my lifestyles after.
My prognosis is excellent, I bought very lucky discovering the cancer via our ABC sponsored mammogram and I bought lucky selecting an aggressive way, bilateral mastectomy, as a result of whereas in surgical treatment remaining week my health practitioner found a second, undetected malignant tumor. No MRI, no mammogram, no sonogram had found it…it was once handiest throughout the mastectomy that she revealed it. My most cancers had unfold to my sentinel lymph node, however no longer past, so I’ll have extra therapies ahead of me, however none a good way to take me out of work. As of right now, I plan to move again into the constructing Monday, December 2nd and I couldn’t be extra excited to get again to work.
Your support and love has made this all an experience that has given me the strength to battle the worry and confidently assist others do the identical in the days/weeks/years to come!
With so much love,
Amy
