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BBC Presenter dies 2 Days after saying Final Goodbye on Twitter
Rachael Bland, the BBC presenter who shared on Twitter that she only had days to live, has died.
40-year-old Bland had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016 and was in May 2018 told her cancer was incurable.
She shared in the moving tweet:
In the words of the legendary Frank S – I’m afraid the time has come my friends. And suddenly. I’m told I’ve only got days. It’s very surreal. Thank you so much for all the support I’ve received.
Bland was also a host of the podcast “You, Me and the Big C,” where she and two other friends who suffer or have suffered the disease discuss how it has affected their lives.
She had been working on a memoir “For Freddie” before passing, which she said was for her 2-year old son Freddie.
Her husband announced her passing on her Instagram, writing:
Our brave, beautiful, wonderful, courageous Rachael died peacefully this morning surrounded by her close family.
We are all heartbroken and the hole she leaves in our perfect little family will never be filled.
To everyone who took an interest in her story over the last two years, downloaded the awe-inspiring You, Me and the Big C podcast or sent her messages of support, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. You’ll never know how much those messages meant to her and us.
We’ll miss her so very much but we couldn’t be prouder of what she achieved in her 40 years, and we are genuinely comforted by the impact we know she had on so many lives. Thank you. Steve and Freddie xxx
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