“Today is the last day before my chemo,” Sarah Kuttner told Welt.
The 47-year-old author and presenter stands immediately before her first chemotherapy session after a breast cancer diagnosis. Kuttner shared photographs on Instagram of a dark brown wig sitting inside a cardboard box on a wooden floor, alongside scissors, combs, and hair clips, as Web.de reported.
She described her personal preparations by writing, “Zweithaar und Endgegner vom Zweithaar. Ich hab den Salon offen und schneide mir meine neue alte Frisur jetzt selbst” on Instagram.
Kuttner described her emotional state on Instagram by asking her community to characterize their mood in two adjectives, offering her own assessment as “tense and impatient.” She intends the planned video blog to serve as an ongoing treatment diary for individuals who share her fears. “I had a great time watching such videos,” she said, noting that she hopes to help others who are afraid.
Kuttner initially expected to undergo only an antihormonal therapy and surgery after her mid-October diagnosis of a three-centimeter tumor in her right breast. That treatment plan shifted when an oncological test showed that a key threshold for therapy decisions was narrowly exceeded, as Web.de reported in early November on the podcast Das kleine Fernsehballett, which she co-hosts with Stefan Niggemeier.
“My tumor is a bit more lumpy than people thought,” she said on the podcast. She further characterized the upcoming treatment during the podcast by stating that her therapy is one “mit Wumms”.
The chemotherapy regimen will last for four and a half months, followed by surgery. Because the treatment appointments fall on Wednesdays, they conflict with the release schedule of her podcast. Kuttner and Niggemeier have canceled the first leg of their planned spring tour for the show, though they intend to continue recording podcast episodes.
Kuttner expects to lose her hair completely within weeks, stating on her podcast that she will have no hair by Christmas Eve. She has already obtained a prescription for her wig and acknowledges the side effects openly while maintaining humor about the situation, according to EuropeSays.
“I have no idea if I’ll pull this off, we mustn’t forget that I also have ADHD and take things on that then don’t happen,” Kuttner told Welt regarding her video diary project.
Kuttner made her diagnosis public in a video released in late September, stating to her fans, “Hi Folks! Endlich wieder schlechte Nachrichten” and describing her visit to her gynecologist with the words, “Ich war gestern in der Frauenarztpraxis zur Krebsvorsorge – und um es mit den Worten meiner Frauenärztin zu sagen: Scheiße”.
The tumor measures approximately three centimeters and is located in her right breast, as reported by Web.de.
Kuttner canceled scheduled readings for her novel Mama & Sam and called off the first leg of her spring podcast tour with Stefan Niggemeier, as Welt detailed.
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