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Clea Shearer has different crushed to beryllium thankful this Thanksgiving.
The Home Edit cofounder announced connected Nov. 22 that she is crab free. Taking to Instagram, Clea shared a bid of photos and videos of her having her past radiation attraction league and past celebrating by ringing the bell.
"I'm done!" she captioned the images, which besides showed her embracing her hubby John Shearer. "Today marks my travel from crab patient, to crab SURVIVOR. I haven't stopped crying since I was capable to ringing the bell."
Clea, 40, who was diagnosed with bosom crab connected March 8 and underwent a treble mastectomy a period later, past reflected connected her journey.
"I woke up aft 9 hours of country to find retired the crab had made it's mode into my lymph nodes, which would mean chemo and radiation were a necessity…" the nonrecreational organizer recalled. "As I was trying to digest that information, 7 days later, I had to spell backmost into country for necrosis (my tegument was not going to marque it). But aft my 2nd country I started healing truly good and made it done with flying colors."
Six weeks aft the procedure, Clea started chemotherapy, which she noted consisted of "8 weeks of AC followed by 12 weeks of Taxol."
"I had immoderate truly unsmooth days, but shockingly, I had immoderate bully days too!" she remembered. "Shout retired to reclining chairs, Top Chef, and Zofran. I wrapped up chemo connected Sept 8th which was 6 weeks early, but my assemblage wasn't producing achromatic humor cells anymore and the agelong word harm wasn't worthy the other treatments."
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In October, Clea began radiation treatment. "I had immoderate starts and stops," she wrote. "I had to deflate my near bosom expander truthful the radiation beam could deed my close side, I had COVID (what successful the actual….), nighttime sessions erstwhile nary 1 was successful the hospital, gala gown changes successful the diligent formal room, etc. But present I sit, connected Nov 22nd, 9 months aft my diagnosis - and I'm crab free."
The Get Organized with The Home Edit star, who appears connected the Netflix bid with her cofounder and BFF Joanna Teplin, besides noted determination were "many metallic linings" passim her journey, including having her parent determination successful with her successful April.
"It's brainsick to accidental this, but we had the astir peculiar time?" she added. "I ne'er imagined astatine 40 years aged I would unrecorded with my ma again, and I loved each minute."
In addition, Clea—who is ma to girl Stella, 11, and lad Sutton, 8—wrote she "never had this magnitude of clip with John and the kids," noting, "It's a clip successful my beingness I volition treasure, even though it was highly hard for each of us."
At the extremity of her message, Clea thanked her followers for their support. "As my attraction travel comes to a adjacent (although, it volition ne'er beryllium over!), I privation to convey you each from the bottommost of my heart," she wrote. "The outpouring of emotion volition enactment with maine always."
Throughout her crab battle, Clea kept her followers updated. By sharing her communicative and launching the Clea Shearer Breast Cancer Research Fund, she hopes to assistance rise consciousness for aboriginal detection.
"Prioritizing our wellness is conscionable thing that traditionally, a batch of women, astatine slightest myself, conscionable don't do," Clea, who antecedently shared she recovered a lump during a self-examination successful February and past advocated for herself to get screened, told E! News successful June. "We're engaged and it's a truly inconvenient information to find thing successful your assemblage specified arsenic cancer. The much we dial successful and absorption successful connected what our bodies are telling us, the better."
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