Vicki Gunvalson star of Real Housewives of Orange County, boyfriend Brooks Ayers has been battling Stage 3 Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma since Fall of 2013. Brooks is telling sources that his chemotherapy treatments have not been treating the aggressive cancer as doctors had originally hoped. That’s six months of chemo and an almost liquid diet that unfortunately, hasn’t helped treat the cancer.
“I am sick,” Brooks told sources. “I do feel bad, but it’s mind over matter a lot of times. You gotta stay the course.”
“When the test results came back, the numbers haven’t changed substantially,” he explained to RadarOnline. “They haven’t gotten worse, but they haven’t gotten better. That was kind of disheartening, to be honest with you.”
“I’m not so sure my body is responding to chemotherapy,” he sadly admited. “At least the cocktail that I was doing. I’m not sure it responded like it needed to.”
Now, Brooks has three options. The first is an “aggressive form of chemotherapy” that would mean three or four days a week of treatment every three weeks for a minimum of four months. Or, he could opt for a stem cell transplant, which has no guarantees.
Brooks also reveals that RHOC new favorite Shannon Beador is helping him develop a holistic approach. I love Shannon but she really should just let Brooks die, I know that sounds mean but karma is a bitch!
“Shannon Beador’s been very much in our corner and putting us in contact with a lot of unbelievable world-renowned holistic physicians based here in Irvine” he said. “We’re exploring that and with that would come no chemo. It would be addressing and taking what I’ve been doing with the holistic diet and an infrared sauna.”
“It’s just assessing what my mentality, my body responds to and it’s been quite a daunting mental task,” he admits.
Vicki has sad fully been right by Brooks’ side. “She keeps me up and going and it’s been good rather than just routine, monotonous life… that’s not what we’re about,” he said. “So it’s been very good from that perspective.”
“At the end of the day, we want to show that you don’t have to lay down and let this disease or the normal course of what we think cancer can do take you down,” Ayers says when asked if he will appear on the upcoming season of RHOC. “You can continue to have a life and you can continue to be strong mentally and the things that we can control, we can control. That’s what we’re doing.”
Vicki Gunvalson’s Boyfriend Brooks Not Responding To Chemo Treatments
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