Katie Thurston fears she has signed Covid during the breast cancer battle.
“I’m literally Googleing everything and questioning everything,” the “Bachelorette” alumni told fans via Instagram story on Friday, adding that she’s “very exhausted” during her stage 4 diagnosis.
“But this was my off week for my medication, so it was thought to be a week when I like to recover and start to feel better again,” she explained, revealing that she had ordered a Covid test despite being “overthinking” it.
The TV personality confessed that she was “tening” and got emotional when she asked, “Why am I crying?”
“Breast cancer is all weird,” she explained.
“You know, “Oh, what about COVID when you have breast cancer? What about COVID when you have low white blood cell counts? Maybe I’m just crashing. I don’t know.”
The reality TV star shared that she “ordered ice cream in my covid test, so everything will be fine today.”
In a subsequent slide via Instagram stories, she shared a snap of Ben & Jerry ice cream with community tests, urging fans to want “luck” on top of the photos.
Another slide showed an open ice cream carton alongside the Covid test. “There’s no Covid,” she wrote above the photo. “I’m tired from breast cancer and hypochondria.”
Thurston reposted a social media quote comparing the bodies of people with cancer to “haunted houses.”
“I’m on my toes of what I’m waiting around the corner,” the repost continued. “I’m looking for an exit, but I know that there are no doors in this house. I learn to dance with ghosts.”
Thurston, 34, first revealed the diagnosis via social media in February, informing fans that he was “ready to fight” with the condition, admitting he had experienced “despair” and “anger.”
“And strength,” she continued. “I have a purpose. I’m ready. I cried a lot. I tried to make a video instead of this post, but I couldn’t,” she said that the other’s stories “helped.” “So I’m going to be the same as everyone else.”
“This is the first day of sharing and it’s going to be a long one,” she continued in the long post. “This first step in accepting my reality was the most difficult. But I’m ready to fight this.”
In March, she revealed that the cancer had progressed to stage 4 and spread to the liver, and that she married comedian Jeff Alkri just before she was treated.
In May, Thurston shared that she belonged to “medically induced menopause.”
The TV personality continued to update, sharing that in June she lost her hair and memory during the treatment of her illness.
Thurston rose to fame during the 25th season of “Bachelor” opposite Matt James, then led the 17th season of “The Bachelorette” and was engaged to Blake Moines.
The pair parted ways in 2021.
