Posted on 11/16/125 by Colin Vassallo
Former TNA and AEW star Rebel announced on social media that
she was diagnosed with lung cancer.
Sharing the news in a video and obviously emotional about
it, the 47-year-old said that she has been feeling sick for
over a year and decided to head to the Mayo Clinic to see if
she can get treated there for what she thought was
cryptococcal pneumonia.
Much to her surprise, doctors told her she’s not suffering
from that, but rather it’s pulmonary lymphoma, which is
cancer in the lungs.
“And if there is a best case scenario then I have it so
that’s good,” she said.
Rebel, real name Tanya Brooks, added that she is starting
full-time rehab tomorrow for a disorder that she developed
called functional neurological disorder, which took away her
ability to walk, affected her speech, and lost some function
in her right hand.
“I now walk with a walker and my ability to speak clearly, I
don’t know if you can tell, but it sounds like I bit my
tongue,” she continued.
She also is suffering from an infection and her cancer
treatment cannot start until the antibiotics prescribed for
her infection do the work. She is targeting December to
undergo a bronchoscopy to determine what kind of treatment
she needs and hopes that in January she can start tackling
the cancer.