Brooke Burke Cancer: Model Tweets That Surgery Was A Success
Brooke Burke tweeted about her successful cancer surgery on Thursday. The model was diagnosed with thyroid cancer earlier this year.
"I'm resting, recovering," Burke wrote. "Surgery went well. Dr Adashek is a genius. Thx Dr! Feels like I got hit my a car :(
"Thank God it's over," she continued in a second tweet. "I'm clean, surgery went well & I can talk. Losing My voice was my biggest fear. Thx for all your prayers & light."
The model also tweeted a photo of herself with the caption, "Made it through my surgery, Thank God! so far so good. F#@k Cancer! I'm recovering, I'm strong, I'm grateful for my brilliant Doctors."
Earlier in the week, Burke wrote a blog post for Modern Mom about how this cancer diagnosis has affected both her and her family. According to the Huffington Post, Burke has four children, two of them from a previous relationship.
As we previously reported, Burke first announced her cancer diagnosis in a YouTube video. The "Dancing with the Stars" host was hoping to keep her upcoming surgery a secret from her two youngest children until the last possible moment. However, that plan fell through when Burke's five-year-old daughter found a clip from the video on the model's phone.
"So when I sat down to discuss it with her, I said that I didn't want to worry her and explained what was happening - that I had a little lump in my neck and the doctor needed to remove it and that I was going to be fine," Burke wrote.
"Then she looked me dead in the eyes and said "It's called cancer, Mom." She's a very deep, old soul; she's like a 40-year-old woman trapped in a beautiful five-year-old body. "
In the end of her post, Burke concluded that she was just ready to get her cancer surgery over with.
"I'm not afraid anymore," she wrote. "I think I've been dealing with it so much the past couple months that now I'm ready to just get it done and put this behind me. My only need is being ok for my husband and my children so they don't have to go through any pain and making this as easy as possible for them."