Cape Town – South African author and activist Zoleka Mandela took to social media on Tuesday to express her fears after her recent visit to her doctor revealed that she had a “pathological fracture and swelling caused by cancer”.
She visited the doctor after having a sore back.
Zoleka, who is also the granddaughter of the late Nelson Mandela, has in the past documented her 10-year breast cancer journey in an autobiography, When Hope Whispers.
“I’ve had a sore back for more than a month now, and recently consulted with my GP when I could no longer tolerate the excruciating pain in my left rib. I went for an x-ray of my chest and rib a few days ago – I have a pathological fracture and swelling caused by cancer,” she wrote on her Instagram timeline.
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She continued: “My Medical Oncologist has scheduled me for a CT scan and bone scan, to determine whether I have cancer in the remaining parts of my body. From what she’s told me, cancer in the bones cannot be eradicated nor can it be cured. I have Bone Metastasis. I’ve just had my CT scan and awaiting my results, I don’t even have the words to articulate my thoughts and feelings, the words to describe how scared I am right now.
“What do I tell my children? How do I tell them that this time around, I may not get to live my life as a survivor? How do I tell them everything will be okay when it’s not? I’m dying … I don’t want to die.”
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Compiled by Betha Madhomu
