TikTok Star Dies From Bone Cancer: Leah Smith Was 22
Smith documented her sickness for her greater than half 1,000,000 followers.
Leah Smith, 22, a TikTok star and Liverpool native who had greater than 500,000 followers, has died from stage 4 bone most cancers, her boyfriend Andrew revealed Monday in a video shared on her account.
Smith had Ewing Sarcoma, a type of bone most cancers that “happens primarily within the bone or smooth tissue,” in keeping with Johns Hopkins Drugs. It’s the second-most frequent sort of bone most cancers in youngsters and younger adults, accounting for about 1 % of childhood cancers, and really uncommon in adults.
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“I am unhappy to say that she handed away at this time round half-eleven this morning,” Andrew stated in the video. “I simply need to say thanks to everybody. All of your feedback did assist, like, she did really learn all of them. Anybody who stated something good ever, it means greater than you understand.”
Smith shared on TikTok on the finish of January that she was not feeling properly once more. “I hate this, like being in mattress for per week… I fall asleep and get up even worse than I did really feel the night time earlier than. I am so unwell.” As a result of her extreme ache, medical doctors despatched her for exams to find out whether or not her most cancers had unfold.
On Feb. 8, Smith introduced the most cancers had unfold and the tumors had grown. She acknowledged her ache treatment had modified however stated, “this feels just like the [beginning] of the tip.” Then, on Feb. 14, Smith revealed that issues had “taken a foul flip,” and she or he had fluid on her proper lung.
The scenario had deteriorated additional on Feb. 18, when Smith posted one other video. “Replace that I did not assume I ever needed to do,” she wrote. “The medical doctors have stated there is not any level making an attempt to present me extra antibiotics and fluids as a result of it simply is not working anymore. All of the ache meds aren’t working so that they actually simply need to get me to a cushty state as a lot as doable.”
“Idk what this implies for me if that is the tip up the journey however all my household have got here round and I’m simply going to behave like I am good and nice as a result of fairly frankly I’m so so scared. I do not need to d!e but. I am sorry.”
In the long run, her brother, Liam, and buddy, Vikki, took over posting updates for Smith till Andrew introduced her loss of life on Monday. “We’ll all miss Leah, however we’ll be sure that we always remember her,” Andrew stated within the video. “I need to see everybody talking about Leah, how wonderful she is and the way a lot she helped everybody. We’ll by no means let Leah be forgotten.”