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Jeana Keough, 1 of nan OG stars of The Real Housewives of Orange County, has been diagnosed pinch lingua crab astatine nan property of 70, her girl confirmed.
The erstwhile Bravo prima was precocious diagnosed, and her daughter, Kara Bosworth, shared specifications connected societal media arsenic she looks to crowdfund to screen crab curen expenses.
“A fewer months ago, while visiting Shane and maine successful Florida, my mom mentioned a achy spot connected her tongue. She assumed a bony had been rubbing against it and had moreover gone to nan dentist aggregate times to person nan bony revenge down,” publication nan GoFundMe page.
After a biopsy, doctors confirmed Keough had cancer, and aft room to region it, a 2nd room was recommended to region lymph nodes. It was astatine this constituent that they discovered nan crab had spread.
“What we thought would beryllium a one-time room became a afloat crab battle. Jeana is now successful her 5th week of chemotherapy, radiation, and immunotherapy. The treatments are relentless,” Bosworth explained. “She is exhausted, struggling to enactment awake, and becoming malnourished because nan symptom successful her lingua and pharynx makes swallowing moreover nan smallest bites aliases sips incredibly difficult.”
With Keough going done crab treatment, she has been incapable to work, and it has “created an tremendous financial burden” connected her.
“Living crossed nan state successful Florida pinch young children has made Shane and maine consciousness painfully helpless passim overmuch of this journey,” Bosworth added. “With nary nonstop flights betwixt us, we’ve often wished we could simply beryllium location to thief pinch nan mundane things that go overwhelming during crab treatment. Now that I’m present successful Orange County and seeing firsthand what she’s facing, I recognize moreover much really overmuch support she needs—not conscionable while I’m here, but aft I return home.”
Keough’s girl said each costs raised “will spell straight toward expenses, mundane surviving costs, nutrition, and nan further support she needs while undergoing treatment.” As of this post, complete $15K was raised retired of nan $22K goal.
Jeana Keough was 1 of nan original stars of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Orange County erstwhile nan reality bid premiered successful 2006. Keough was connected nan bid for nan first 5 seasons and has continued to make appearances passim its run. She is featured successful nan premiere section of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Roaring 20th, which celebrates nan franchise’s 20th anniversary.
