Kellie Finlayson has made a heartbreaking admission as she continues to battle stage 4 bowel and lung cancer.
The AFL WAG, 28, revealed she is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the severe mental toll her ongoing treatment has had on her.
‘Before I didn’t really take PTSD seriously, but now I experience it myself to the point where I work myself up into anxiety before I get treatment,’ Kellie told the Herald Sun.
‘It makes me so much sicker. I’m currently on chemotherapy, but undergoing a range of intense treatments took a toll on me.’
Kellie said she was now committed to raising awareness about living with the brutal disease and unpacking some common misconceptions about it.
‘Bowel cancer is definitely talked about more as an older person’s disease. It’s not. I was young, the fittest I’d ever been, I was running marathons, the pinnacle of health,’ she said.
‘Yet, the cancer still managed to affect me and get me when I least expected it.’
Kellie recently told Ant Middleton ‘she did not want her life to to be defined by her disease’ on Nova’s Head Game podcast.
Kellie Finlayson has revealed she is suffering from PTSD as she continues to battle stage 4 bowel and lung cancer. Pictured with her husband, Port Adelaide star Jeremy Finlayson
‘If I’m alive, I might as well live. I’m living on borrowed time. I need to make the most of it,’ Kellie said.
Kellie, who is married to Port Adelaide star Jeremy Finlayson, also 28, added that she took pride in ‘thriving’ with cancer and was determined not to take her illness and its side effects ‘one day at a time’.
The couple revealed in August they were selling their property so they could get a place suited to providing Kellie with in-home care.
‘Before I didn’t really take PTSD seriously, but now I experience it myself to the point where I work myself up into anxiety before I get treatment,’ Kellie told the Herald Sun . ‘It makes me so much sicker. I’m currently on chemotherapy, but undergoing a range of intense treatments took a toll on me’
The social media influencer has been fighting bowel and lung cancer after she was diagnosed in November 2021 following the birth of the couple’s daughter Sophia.
She underwent several surgeries and chemotherapy after her initial stage 3 diagnosis worsened to stage 4.
In July, she confirmed the sad news she would have to resume chemotherapy to quickly get on top of the cancer, which had started growing again after she stopped chemo and radiation therapy in favour of natural and alternative treatments.
Kellie said she was now committed to raising awareness about living with the brutal disease and unpacking some common misconceptions about it
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