“Real Housewives of Orange County” alum Jeana Keough was diagnosed with tongue cancer, her daughter, Kara, revealed.
“A few months ago, while visiting Shane and me in Florida, my mom mentioned a painful spot on her tongue,” Kara, 37, wrote via a GoFundMe dedicated to paying for the TV personality’s treatment.
“She assumed a tooth had been rubbing against it and had even gone to the dentist multiple times to have the tooth filed down.”
When Kara asked Keough, 70, how long the sore had been on her tongue, the latter “paused, thought about it, and realized it had been nearly a year.”
“A biopsy confirmed our worst fear: squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue,” she wrote, explaining that the reality star has since undergone two surgeries, one to remove the cancer and another to “remove lymph nodes.”
However, after the second surgery, doctors noticed that the cancer had spread.
“What we thought would be a one-time surgery became a full cancer battle,” Kara added. “Jeana is now in her fifth week of chemotherapy, radiation, and immunotherapy.”
“The treatments are relentless. She is exhausted, struggling to stay awake, and becoming malnourished because the pain in her tongue and throat makes swallowing even the smallest bites or sips incredibly difficult. Every day is a battle just to get enough nutrition and hydration to continue treatment.”
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