After undergoing a double mastectomy amid her breast cancer battle, CNN's Sara Sidner is looking on the bright side.
Following her surgery, the news anchor took to social media on Thursday with a video message, revealing that she felt as sore as if she had benchpressed 300 pounds dozens of times. Fortunately, however, Sidner noted that the pain level was far better than she had anticipated. Then, she let viewers in on "a little secret": Her hospital room was quite the accommodation.
"I would live here," she said. "Look at this apartment -- I mean -- hospital room."
Sidner proceeded to show her room at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, noting the view, television and private bathroom.
Likening it to a $1 million apartment in New York, Sidner quipped she was going to stay for as long as she could.
On Wednesday, the journalist updated viewers about her cancer treatment, confirming that she would be going in for surgery. "Tomorrow is my double mastectomy surgery," she wrote on Instagram. "The reality seems so barbaric. Literally amputated a part of you. But you know what? Life is worth it."
She first spoke out about her stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis in January, addressing viewers live on air. At the time, she shared that she was undergoing chemotherapy treatment, which would be followed by radiation and surgery. She also encouraged women to get their yearly mammograms and do self-exams, noting that Black women are statistically more likely to die from breast cancer than white women.
"Here is something I could not have ever predicted would happen to me. I have thanked cancer for choosing me," she wrote on Instagram at the time. "I am learning that no matter the hell we all go through in this life... I am still madly in love with mine. Just being alive feels different now. I am happier because I don't stress about the foolish little things that used to annoy me. Now every single day I breathe another breath I celebrate that I am still here with you, and that I can still love and cry and hope. And that, my dear friends, is enough."
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