Vicki Gunvalson’s Boyfriend Brooks Not Responding To Chemo Treatments

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

Vicki Gunvalson And Boyfriend Brooks Ayers Are Still Together!

RHOC star Vicki Gunvalson and her boyfriend Brooks Ayers have been the top of storylines for the past few years, Brooks always looking like the evil villain and Vickie like the damsel in distress. A new report states they are now happily living together, which leaves us wondering when the next break up will be, or maybe cheating scandal!

“It’s been a challenging couple of months for Vicki and myself for sure, but we’re doing good,” Brooks says. “One of the words I use to describe Vicki is ‘intense.’ She’s intense in every aspect of her life in whatever she’s doing. Having fun, whooping it up, or working, in a relationship, or whatever, she’s intense — and that’s a good thing.”

Brooks also said that he and Vicki were together exclusively for a year prior to his cancer diagnosis last fall, “regardless of what everybody thought.”

“I did move in once the diagnosis happened,” he tells RadarOnline. “That was a decision that was brought up by her. She said, ‘Hey, I need you. I want to take care of you. I want to be there for you. It’s time for us to take this next step. It makes logical sense. I don’t want you at your place getting sick and me staying over there or you staying over here and your stuff at your place…’ That’s how that all transpired.”

“You’ll see this season that we have the complete support of Tamra and Eddie as well,” he states. “Life changes with Tamra becoming a Grandma and Vicki becoming a Grandma twice. There’s a lot of things going on. It kind of sheds out all the other BS. It makes you realize what’s important in your life. It kind of puts into focus, it puts everything else that’s really not important that we tend to get hung up on sometimes kind of on the back burner or completely wiped out. Let’s focus on what the main thing is.”

So what about Vicki’s daughter Briana and his never ending bitching? “I can’t really say because of the filming,” he admitted. “I can just say this, just watch what happens. I hate to use that, but it’s, just watch what happens!”

Lets hope for a Briana vs Brooks round 3 as Briana always brings it hard!

 

 

Vicki Gunvalson And Boyfriend Brooks Ayers Are Still Together!