WECT morning co-anchor Kim Ratcliff has let viewers know she can be off the air for the subsequent few weeks as she offers with a well being problem.
An damage earlier within the yr, when she fell and hit her head, is being credited with saving her life. Whereas doing a scan to examine her situation and to find out what brought on the autumn that took her off the air on the Wilmington, N.C. NBC affiliate for a time, docs seen a nodule on considered one of her lungs.
“When just a few months glided by and the nodule didn’t go away, I used to be instructed to go get principally a biopsy, which is named a bronchoscopy within the medical world,” Kim defined. “It decided I had one thing referred to as adenocarcinoma, a really gradual rising most cancers, and later they discovered it’s a Stage 1 most cancers principally.”
Ratcliff stated she journey to Duke College Hospital later this week to have surgical procedure to take away the cancerous space in a lobe of her left lung.
Since she is a runner, she wished to let folks know that even the healthiest people are usually not immune from getting most cancers.
“I simply wished to ship a message, if I may, that this will occur to anyone,” she stated. “Sadly, there are usually not any signs for this most cancers. So all you are able to do is do every little thing you’ll be able to to place your self and your family members in a wholesome surroundings.”
