TikTok Star Leah Smith, 22, Dies of Bone Most cancers

TikTok star Leah Smith, who documented her well being struggles to greater than 500,000 followers, has died from stage 4 bone most cancers, her boyfriend Andrew shared in a video posted to her account on Monday. 

She was 22 years outdated.

Smith had Ewing Sarcoma, a kind of bone most cancers that “begins as a development of cells within the bones and the smooth tissue across the bones” in keeping with the Mayo Clinic, which added that though it could possibly happen at any age, it typically impacts younger adults and kids. 

“I’m unhappy to say that she handed away right this moment round half-eleven this morning,” Andrew mentioned in his video. “I simply need to say thanks to everybody. All of your feedback did assist, like, she did truly learn all of them. Anybody who mentioned something good ever, it means greater than you notice.”

As Smith, a Liverpool native, shared on the finish of January in a TikTok, “I’m not nicely once more. I hate this, like being in mattress for per week… I fall asleep and get up even worse than I did really feel the night time earlier than. I’m so unwell.”

She returned to the hospital on February 3, telling her followers, “I can’t even transfer to go to the bathroom or something as a result of I’m in that a lot ache. I’m simply caught sitting like this.”

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Her ache was so extreme that she was despatched for exams to find out if her most cancers had unfold.

And on February 8, Smith gave an replace: “I had an thought however when [you’re] advised it nonetheless hurts so sure the most cancers has unfold and sure the tumors have grown.”

“They’ve modified my ache meds lastly…my physician mentioned simply fear concerning the ache for now however this feels just like the [beginning] of the top figuring out it can possible by no means go.”

And on February 14, Smith shared “issues have took a foul flip…I’ve fluid on my proper lung.”

“I really feel like somebody is crushing my insides,” she wrote on TikTok.

On February 18, Smith posted one other video, writing that issues had been dire.

“Replace that I didn’t suppose I ever wished to do,” she wrote. “The docs have mentioned there’s no level attempting to provide me extra antibiotics and fluids as a result of it simply isn’t working anymore. All of the ache meds aren’t working in order that they actually simply need to get me to a cushty state as a lot as potential.”

“Idk what this implies for me if that is the top up the journey however all my household have got here round and I’m simply going to behave like I’m good and nice as a result of fairly frankly I’m so so scared. I don’t need to d!e but. I’m sorry.”

“Am I going to die on this hospital?” she requested in one of many final movies she posted. “Am I ever going dwelling?”

Her brother, Liam, and pal, Vikki, finally took over posting updates for Smith, till Andrew’s replace on Monday saying her demise.

“We’ll all miss Leah, however we’ll be sure that we always remember her,” Andrew mentioned in his video. “I need to see everybody talking about Leah, how superb she is and the way a lot she helped everybody. We’ll by no means let Leah be forgotten.”