Breeze Hunter started his last year at Texas A&M University with a typical cold. She only started to worry when it lasted almost two months.
She was tired all the time, her days dotted with breathlessness and headache that she had never had before. The doctors of the campus told her that she had a sinus infection which was probably extended by the usual bustle of being a full -time student and a member of the sorority.
Its symptoms have progressed. After a campus doctor pushed her to obtain straps, she learned that her levels were “everywhere,” Hunter, 22, in Business Insider told.
A few days later, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, the doctors confirmed that she had acute myeloid leukemia – a rare and more aggressive form of cancer. Abnormal white blood cells are developing at a rapid rate, more numerous than healthy blood cells.
“As soon as we discovered it, we just couldn’t believe that it really happened that I had cancer,” said Hunter. “It’s a very scary moment, and it hardly feels real.”
Rush to treatment
Hunter with her boyfriend. Breeze Hunter with her boyfriend.
Once it has been diagnosed with leukemia, treatment started immediately. The first chemotherapy cycle worked very well – it went from an explosion of 95%, or percentage of abnormal blood cells, at 7%.
To be considered in remission, a person with acute myeloid leukemia must have 5% or less breath cells in their body. Hunter made a second cycle of chemo, one who was “much more difficult” than the first.
After that, she went directly to 11 days of radiotherapy on her brain and her spine. “It really burned my skin,” she said. “It made a big impact on my body.”
‘My 200 square feet manor’
Hunter in his hospital room. Breeze
Treatments took him away from his life on campus – the first cycle of chemo alone involved a one -month stay in hospital. To pass the time, she started to make Tiktoks on her cancer experience, including a viral video of her “cribs” parodis of MTV by visiting her hospital room.
Hunter, who did not grow up watching the show, had the idea of his sister. They looked at clips for the first time before Hunter took the camera, sharing his makeshift closet and framed photos of his family.
Hunter relied on his family, boyfriend and friends during this period. “When you are alone, you think too much and you think the worst of the worst,” she said. “I never had that, which is incredible.”
Hunter with his brother, sister and mom. Breeze
She also connected with other young people to leukemia, including a former secondary classmate with whom she used to cheerle.
“I ask how it is almost every day and I see if it needs something or someone to talk,” said Hunter. “It’s very difficult – we are so young and we miss a lot for young adults.”
A successful cell transplant
Hospital hunter with her mother and sister after her stem cell transplant. Breeze
In December, Hunter was in remission.
Even thus, Hunter needed a stem cell transplant after chemo and radiation to replace its cancer cells with healthy cells. His brother was a 100% donor match.
The transplant was completed in January and was “certainly the most difficult thing I have ever done,” said Hunter. In its current recovery, she said that she had lost a lot of weight and developed a mucosa, a common inflammatory condition that can develop after treatment against cancer.
Now she slowly takes on weight and hopes to push her hair. Hospital visits and Hunter doctors have gone daily at once a week.
Hunter with her boyfriend after finishing his treatments for cancer. Breeze
Hunter, who continued to take online lessons so that she could recover at home with her family, graduated in leadership and agricultural development with the economy on May 9. She is delighted to walk on graduation.
After that, she goes on vacation with her family – something she could not do because of being immunocompromised.
“I come back to normal and to be able to do normal things, I look forward to it,” she said.
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