Mama June confirms the worst about daughter’s devastating cancer prognosis: ‘It’s terminal’
Tragedy has struck the family as Mama June reveals her firstborn has been diagnosed with cancer. The family is now opening up about the battle they are facing and what the future might hold for them.
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Mama June Shannon and her four children are beloved all over the world. Recently, the family has made a heartbreaking announcement that the eldest child, Mama June’s daughter Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell, is battling stage 4 adrenal carcinoma.
“She’s actually doing pretty good,” Mama June said in an update about her daughter’s health. “She’s handling it pretty good.”
Lauryn “Pumpkin” Efird was also present and agreed, adding that her older sister “genuinely is OK.”
“She can still go to the grocery store, she can drive herself, she’s still able to take the kids to and from places,” Lauryn added, she also noted that Anna “doesn’t have hair, she has no eyebrows, she doesn’t have any hair on her arms or anything like that.”
The family shared that Anna has so far undergone four rounds of chemotherapy.
“A lot of people thought that it was gonna make her sick and stuff like that, [but] she’s able to bounce back pretty quick,” Lauryn said. Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson, added to the comment saying, “It does wear her body down sometimes, but other than that, she’s pretty good.”
Anna has two children 10-year-old Kaitlyn and 7-year-old Kylee, and the family says they are getting by as well.
“The 10-year-old is aware, I don’t think she fully understands,” Lauryn share about her niece Kaitlyn. “I think she understands that Mommy is sick and Mommy might not be here for a while… She’s 10, but she’s a lot more mature than that because she’s been raised around older people.”
They shared how the diagnosis and treatment has affected the kids that they are scared of not having their mother around. Mama June said of her grandchild, “Kaitlyn was always close with Anna, but now she doesn’t go anywhere without Anna. I get that because she’s thinking if Anna goes somewhere then maybe Anna might not be at the house when she gets back.”
They shared that Kylee is “too young to understand” what is going on with her mother.