TikTok superstar Dr. Kimberley Nix has gave up the ghost, 3 years nearest she was once recognized with metastatic sarcoma. She was once simply 31.
Kimberley (AKA @cancerpatientmd) grew well-known on Instagram and TikTok in 2021 nearest she began documenting her most cancers move. She was once simply 28 and within the closing while of her interior drugs core residency when she was once first recognized with extra-skeletal osteosarcoma. Medical doctors upcoming ambitious she had undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma. She defined to Population that “having an evolving diagnosis is common in sarcoma because there are over 100 subtypes.”
In line with the Nationwide Most cancers Institute, undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma generally modes within the cushy tissue (however it may well mode within the bone). For Kimberley, she first spotted a pile on her left leg, which “rapidly” grew to be the “size of a golf ball in just over a week.” She quickly started chemotherapy, taking a tablet each and every future right through her remedy, in keeping with Population.
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Heartbreakingly, Kimberley, from Calgary, Alberta, introduced her loss of life herself by means of a 9-minute prerecorded video posted to TikTok, wherein she informed her cherished fanatics:
“Hello followers, if you’re seeing this message I have passed away peacefully. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Kim, hi! It’s so nice to meet you and you’re welcome to check out all the cool sarcoma facts, information and my lived experience with death and dying with sarcoma cancer. You don’t have to go just because you’re new.”
She went directly to thank those that gave her the platform to suggest for sarcoma consciousness in addition to serving to her are living her perfect time via finishing issues off her bucket record, akin to a commute to Unutilized York Town. She shared:
“Thank you all so much. And if following along has been helpful in any way, I have achieved my goal. If sarcoma awareness is achieved, I have achieved my goal. And I just can’t thank you all enough for being so supportive, for your comments, for cheering me on, for helping us feel not alone in this process. This community has meant the absolute world to me and I can’t thank you enough. I will miss you, TikTok. I love you all, thank you so much for this amazing opportunity. I’m in happy tears because you’ve all made me find so much purpose in the end of my life.”
She additionally teared up future talking about her husband, Michael MacIsaac, emotionally reflecting:
“He’s the love of my life. It’s the most beautiful love. My only sadness dying is knowing that we didn’t get to grow old together. Everything else is totally bearable because that is the only thing that really matters.”
Oof. So gut-wrenching!
In her caption, she added:
“My journey here is over and i cant thank each and every one of you enough! You have all made me so happy and your comments and support are more than enough to have gotten anyone through anything! If you wish, Please donate through my link in bio to sarcoma cancer research and follow my husband in his updates @LightestCheese”
Donations can also be made HERE, if you want. Concentrate to the emotional complete see you (under):
@cancerpatientmd
My move here’s over and that i cant thank every one in every of you plethora! You may have all made me so satisfied and your feedback and aid are greater than plethora to have got any individual thriugh anything else! If you want, Please donate via my hyperlink in bio to sarcoma most cancers analysis and apply my husband in his updates @LightestCheese ???? #loss of life #demise #palliative #sarcoma #undifferentiatedpleomorphicsarcoma #most cancers #cancerpatient #md #resident #medschool
♬ latest tone – Most cancers Affected person, MD
We’re sending our like to all of Kimberely’s folk and pals presently! She touched such a lot of lives right through this hard move. Might she now extra in vacation…
[Image via Kimberley Nix/TikTok]
