“Who says cancer and chemo have to get you down?” That’s what Ana-Alecia Ayala asks on her social media pages above a video of her busting some moves around her chemo station in hospital,
The 32-year-old cancer sufferer, mum of a three-year-old daughter, reveals her plans to hip hop her way to better health. “We want to show the world that dancing and laughter is the BEST medicine.”
Ana-Alecia posted this on Wednesday (US Texas time) on Instagram and Facebook and it’s already garnered almost 5 million views, 80,000 shares, 68,000 responses and 3800 comments.
Here’s her post:
Her post was captioned: “Who says cancer and chemo have to get you down? We’ll have the last laugh!! Having an awesome chemo buddy like @danilax21 who is ALWAYS down for a dance party helps too!! We want to show the world that dancing and laughter is the BEST medicine. We are #AnaStrong !!
Ana-Alecia was diagnosed with a rare form of uterine cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma in December 2015. According to her GoFundMe page, the tumour in her uterus is gone but she is now undergoing aggressive chemotherapy for a new tumour that was discovered in her spleen in July.
Ana-Alecia’s newest photo on her GoFundMe page.
“Rhabdomyosarcoma picked the wrong girl to mess with!!” Ayala wrote on her GoFundMe page.
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