Sam McClymont has revealed how his young songs are coping while undergoing chemotherapy while battling breast cancer.
The Getaway host and country music star was diagnosed with an aggressive form of the disease at the age of 38 last year.
She admitted it was also difficult to explain her diagnosis to her two young children, Wilder, six, and Ari, five, but they have been supportive.
“He likes to tell people: ‘This is my mom, she’s bald,'” she says. stellar magazine this week from his youngest son, Ari.
“It’s not like I see anyone like me right now, so I think it might be a protective measure that I want to call out the elephant in the room before it’s pointed out, ‘Yeah, we know Mom’s bald.’ Thank you”. ‘”.
She said her son and husband, pilot Ben Poxon, also helped her shave her hair, but she “couldn’t get excited when she looked in the mirror while they were with her.”
Sam previously revealed she was initially given the all-clear last year after finding a lump in her right breast and went to get her results assuming it would be good news.
“I was alone when they told me I had triple negative cancer, the most aggressive breast cancer,” she said.
Sam McClymont has revealed how his young songs are coping while undergoing chemotherapy while battling breast cancer. Photographed in Stellar
‘So what’s going through my brain is, well, I’ve known this since October and it’s already the end of February; How fast has this been growing?
Sam said he underwent more tests and received no response from his doctor, so he returned for his next appointment three weeks later.
“I decided to go see the specialist anyway and see what my options were,” he said. women’s day.
But she was shocked when the specialist informed her that she had triple negative breast cancer, the most aggressive form.
She admitted it was also difficult to explain her diagnosis to her two young children, Wilder, six, and Ari, five, but they have been supportive.
She said her son and husband, pilot Ben Poxon, also helped her shave her hair, but she “couldn’t get excited when she looked in the mirror while they were with her.”
“I started crying instantly. It was a shock. He was telling me all the treatments, but I couldn’t believe it,” Sam recalled.
‘I was crying when I called (her husband) Ben and my younger sister Mollie. Then she was crying. “No one expected this.”
Sam has also taken a step back from work as he is currently unable to travel with his TV show Getaway.
He has completed 12 of his 16 rounds of chemotherapy and will next undergo surgery and radiation.
Triple negative breast cancer is considered life-threatening because it is aggressive and accelerates the rate at which the cancer can grow and spread.
Common symptoms include breast lumps, swelling, breast or nipple pain, dimpling of the skin, and nipple discharge.
Read more in this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine
