Amy Robach of GMA receives a ton of support after sharing a hospital photo amid a health milestone.
Amy Robach
of GMA receives a ton of support after sharing a hospital photo amid a health
milestone.
The former Good Morning America star, who quit the program
after falling in love with her co-worker T.J. Holmes, was seen holding up her
other arm in a display of strength while wearing a black blouse with one sleeve
turned up to accommodate her IV medication.Her tweet received a flood of
supportive replies from her followers. 10 years ago today I became a
survivor.... to everyone out there fighting the fight, I salute you
#breastcancerawareness, she wrote as the caption.
One person said, A true inspiration!! Thank you for this, and also for standing by me when I was fighting. Another wrote Ten years! much more robust than before.
In October 2013, Amy was given an ER-positive stage 2 breast cancer diagnosis. Her co-star Robin Roberts, a fellow breast cancer survivor, persuaded her to get a mammogram, and
she later thanked him for saving her life."If you walk into that mammovan she
initially persuaded me to get a mammogram, Amy said in an October 2022 podcast
with SheKnows.
She added "What I didn't realise was that the first
life I would save would be my own."
Following a double
mastectomy and eight rounds of chemotherapy, Amy underwent medically induced
menopause at the age of 40 as a result of her cancer diagnosis.
During a 2018 GMA program, the TV personality opened her about her finding. "I never thought
about menopause," she remarked.But now that I know, it's a fairly typical
side effect of chemotherapy. For my doctors, though, it was a benefit rather
than a bad effect because my particular type of cancer is fueled by estrogen.
As expected, midway through my treatments, I stopped having periods, and the
physicians put me on medicine to maintain menopause for the next ten years or
more.
"Having had cancer treatments, I assumed menopause would be easy, but I was unprepared for
how strong and persistent the symptoms would be. The initial one was the
toughest because of the heat—oh my god, the heat! And four years later, I'm
still in pain.
Afterwards, there are the sweats at night. Down comforters and blanks are no longer
acceptable. My spouse can never stay cuddled up with me for longer than two
minutes before I have to push him away out of concern that we may both catch
fire."