Cape Town – South African writer and activist, Zoleka Mandela will not let cancer deter her from living her life to the fullest as she displayed when she revealed to her Instagram followers that she had started working out again for the first time in a long time.
Earlier this year, she revealed that she had cancer in both her liver and lungs.
Resiliently, she let her Instagram followers know that she feels amazing after working out again.
“So, I worked out for the first time today, and in a long time! ? I’m aiming for 2-3 workouts a week,” she said in a post.
She added that she can’t aim for high-intensity workouts due to the effect cancer has had on her bones.
“I can only do low intensity or moderate exercises due to my (current) pathological fractures of my bones as a result of skeletal cancer, anything other than this would cause more of the bones in my body to break.”
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“As some of you may already know, I have cancer of the (bone metastasis) bone i,e. cancer in the spinal cord and hip, as well as in my lung and liver,” she reminded her followers.
However, she revealed that the exercise is aimed at helping her manage the ramifications of the cancer.
“I have taken up exercising yet again, to manage side effects of the cancer as well as to improve my physical and mental health or wellbeing.”
“I feel absolutely AMAZING,” she concluded.
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Compiled by Junaid Benjamin
