Mel Schilling has shared a hopeful update on her battle with cancer.
The Married At First Sight relationship expert posted on Instagram this weekend to announce that she’s celebrating completing her final round of chemotherapy.
The 52-year-old posed with her husband Gareth Brisbane and beamed for the camera.
The smiling couple went out for lunch together and had a well-deserved wine tasting to celebrate the milestone.
“Going to lunch with the big man to celebrate my upcoming LAST chemo,” Mel wrote in the caption.
‘Lovely day on the river, great food, a sip of wine and optimism all around’.
Mel was less optimistic when she started chemotherapy in May, admitting she found the side effects increasingly difficult to cope with.
The therapist revealed that she was diagnosed with the disease in December and subsequently underwent surgery and chemotherapy.
Mel Schilling has shared a very hopeful update on her battle with cancer. The 52-year-old posed like a storm with her husband Gareth Brisbane, beaming for the camera. Both pictured
“It’s getting hard now,” she admitted The mirror at the time.
“I’m about halfway through and it’s getting tough. I’m feeling more and more tired and nauseous.”
“I feel like I’m hungover or pregnant every day, and it’s not fun,” she continued.
Mel added that she is undergoing treatment during her move to the UK with her husband Gareth.
“I don’t do things halfway. It’s been a tough time, adjusting to that process and moving,” she said.
Mel, an ambassador for colorectal disease charity Occtopus, recently spoke to UK show Magic FM about her health.
The Married At First Sight relationship expert posted a message on Instagram this weekend revealing that she’s celebrating finishing her final chemotherapy
“I’m actually feeling a bit down today, to be honest,” she said.
Mel shared that she is now on her third cycle of chemotherapy.
“It feels a bit like I have a hangover, like I’ve been drinking all night.”
Despite this, the media personality indicated that he is determined to continue working and has no plans to slow down.
“I’m just trying to find a way to balance it all out now because I’m not going to stop working. This thing isn’t going to beat me, I’m here to fight, I just have to make some adjustments,” she continued.
This comes after Mel opened up about the torment she went through before being diagnosed with cancer.
Speak with New! magazine, Mel remembers the intense pain she felt while at work: ‘I was doubled over and screaming – the pain was so intense.’
Her doctors initially thought she was constipated, but she soon became concerned when she lost her appetite.
Mel said during a trip to Ireland with her husband that she was in “so much pain” and had difficulty keeping food and water down.
Mel was less optimistic in May when she underwent chemotherapy, admitting that it had become difficult to cope with the side effects
Knowing something was still wrong, she went to a gastroenterologist on her return to London, who was ‘concerned’ about her unexplained weight loss.
Mel underwent a CT scan and returned a few days later for the results, and she still remembers the heartbreaking moment when she was told she had cancer.
She said: ‘We were sitting in his office and the doctor looked at me with a blank stare and I thought, ‘This doesn’t seem right,’ and he said, ‘It’s cancer.’ I think I was numb, I couldn’t process it and I went into work mode, that was all I could focus on.’
The reality TV host revealed in December that she was struggling with her health and underwent bowel surgery just before the end of the year.
She explained that her tumor, which she named “Terry,” had been removed by British doctors.
But when the cancer spread through her colon to the muscle, Mel found out she needed chemotherapy, and she began treatment in late February.