WECT morning co-anchor Kim Ratcliff has let viewers know she shall be off the air for the subsequent few weeks as she offers with a well being concern.
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 verify 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, medical doctors observed a nodule on one in all her lungs.
“When a couple of months glided by and the nodule didn’t go away, I used to be informed to go get mainly a biopsy, which is named a bronchoscopy within the medical world,” Kim defined. “It decided I had one thing known as adenocarcinoma, a really sluggish rising most cancers, and later they came upon it’s a Stage 1 most cancers mainly.”
Ratcliff mentioned 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 needed to let individuals know that even the healthiest people will not be immune from getting most cancers.
“I simply needed to ship a message, if I may, that this could occur to anyone,” she mentioned. “Sadly, there will not be any signs for this most cancers. So all you are able to do is do every thing you’ll be able to to place your self and your family members in a wholesome setting.”
