Taylor Swift fan Samantha Bulloch has revealed her dying wish is to meet the singer and has made a last-minute plea to make her dreams come true.
Samantha, 29, from Sydney, was devastatingly given just three years to live when she was diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer a year ago.
Now, Samantha has taken to social media to make a heartfelt plea to anyone who can arrange a meeting with Taylor during the Australian leg of her Eras tour.
Swiftie already has a ticket to Taylor’s final show in Sydney on February 26, but is desperate for the chance to meet the global megastar backstage.
She gushed that it would “make his year” and said she wants to tell Taylor how much he means to her, as she’s been a die-hard fan since she was just 15 years old.
Taylor Swift fan Samantha Bulloch has revealed her dying wish is to meet the singer and has made a last-minute request to make her dreams come true.
Samantha told him. 7life: ‘Taylor means a lot to me and I would love the opportunity to tell her what a huge impact she has had on my life.
“I have loved her since I was 15 years old and her music has accompanied me through many chapters of my life, including this one.”
Samantha said she recently got Taylor’s lyrics ‘For the Hope of It All’ from her song August tattooed on her arm, encouraging her to live life to the fullest amid her battle with cancer.
‘I adopted that lyric during my experience with cancer. “I choose to live in hope for all of this,” she explained.
Making a heartfelt plea to anyone who could arrange an appointment with Taylor, he said: “I’m dying quietly and honestly this would make my year.”
Taylor’s Eras tour will kick off at Melbourne’s Cricket Ground on February 16, with the star taking to the stage three nights in a row, before performing at Sydney’s Accor Stadium for four nights from February 23-26.
Samantha’s life was turned upside down last year when she was told she only had three years to live after doctors found life-threatening tumors spread across her colon, liver and right lung following a routine blood test.
Samantha has taken to social media to make a heartfelt plea to anyone who can arrange a meeting with Taylor during the Australian leg of her Eras tour.
On February 28, the library assistant, who was 28 at the time, was devastatingly diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer that had spread to her organs.
“I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I’m not overweight, I don’t eat processed meat, I barely eat red meat and I have no family history of bowel cancer – it just didn’t make sense.” ‘Samantha told FEMAIL about her diagnosis in December.
She was diagnosed with cancer after visiting her GP for a blood test to check her iron levels.
Her symptoms included “random” fatigue, the odd bout of bloating, and some spotting during 2020, which she attributed to stress.
Blood test results confirmed who has anemia, but also noted that his liver enzymes were “three times above normal.”
The GP made an appointment for an ultrasound of Samantha’s liver which revealed “non-specific lesions” and a mass. The report also lists a variety of diseases they could be, one of them being cancer.
“When I saw that I already thought it was a death sentence,” he said.
Swiftie already has a ticket to Taylor’s final show in Sydney on February 26, but is desperate for the chance to meet the global megastar backstage.
A week later, the results of a CT scan confirmed Samantha’s worst fears: She had a tumor growing in her sigmoid colon that had spread to her liver and right lung.
‘I thought: how have I been living with tumors growing in my body and I didn’t know it? It was crazy to me,” she said.
‘I remember being at that appointment with my GP and my dad thinking “it’s over, they’re going to tell me there’s nothing they can do.” I knew how bad it was and that absolutely terrified me.’
The tumor in his colon was 6cm, the two in his liver were 8cm and the one in his right lung was 1.5cm, while he also had a “bunch of small tumours” spread across his liver that could not be measured.
The life-changing news shook Samantha to her core and she initially thought, “I can’t do this, I don’t want to do this, I’m not strong enough to do this.”
‘I didn’t even want to try, but somehow I put on my big girl pants and headed to the next appointment. The first few months were a lot of emotional ups and downs; I couldn’t stop crying on the first day of treatment.’
Two days after the diagnosis, he met with an oncologist and “barely remembers the conversation” after the important, life-changing news.
Instead of undergoing surgery first, doctors opted for chemotherapy in an attempt to shrink the tumors.
Samantha began treatment on March 31 and has been receiving biweekly visits since. By the sixth session of chemotherapy, her tumors had shrunk significantly.
She gushed that it would “make his year” and said she wants to tell Taylor how much he means to her, as she’s been a die-hard fan since she was just 15 years old.
In early October, a scan found that the colon tumor had “collapsed,” meaning it was crushed against the wall of the colon.
The tumor in the lung also could not be measured because it is now too small and one in the liver is less than 2 cm and the other is 3 cm.
“So far I have had a very positive response to the treatment, better than my doctor thought,” he said. “It really has been a miracle and I’m so happy it worked out so well.”
Samantha said she thought she was nine months into her remaining two or three years before the doctor assured her that “it doesn’t work that way.”
He explained that after each check of the scans the clock is reset because the time does not start from the diagnosis, but rather from the last scan.
‘My doctor told me that if the treatment doesn’t work, it will be less than 12 months. “If it works, I hope to get you two or three years, which obviously isn’t what anyone wants to hear,” he said.
Samantha, 29, from Sydney, was devastatingly given just three years to live when she was diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer a year ago.
‘My mother died of breast cancer when I was 10 years old. She started at stage one or two and then moved up to stage four. She was very aggressive and moved to her liver, then began to worsen rapidly.
“That’s why I associate liver cancer with really bad news because I saw it firsthand.”
‘I’ve surprised myself with the fact that I had (the ability to do this) and get ahead. “I have been able to come to terms and accept that I have cancer,” he continued.
‘If you had told me last year that I would be diagnosed with cancer and that I would actually be okay emotionally, I wouldn’t have believed you. You’ll be surprised what you can do.’