Just days after her 85th birthday on December 21, Jane Fonda has several reasons to celebrate. The best thing is the remission of the tumor that affects her, as she herself announced from her official Instagram account.
“BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT!!!” The actress wrote – so, in capital letters – on her social networks and explained: “Last week my oncologist told me that my cancer is in remission and that I can stop chemotherapy. I feel so blessed, so lucky. I thank all of you who have prayed and they sent me good thoughts.
Grace and Frankie star and two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda also previously took to her Instagram account, on Sept. 2, to announce that she had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and would she had started a six-month course of chemotherapy.
He took it optimistically
At that time, he also reassured his followers and assured him his was a “very treatable” type of cancer. and with an 80% survival rate.
Fonda had also said that the last chemotherapy session had been one of the most difficult. In a recent post, she provided details, describing how she felt exhausted for two weeks after taking the treatment.
His social work and against climate change
Despite this, on December 2, the actress was seen at a public event in Washington DC in the first face-to-face meeting of Fire Drill Fridays, a project that Fonda conceived in 2019 together with Greenpeace USA.
Recognized militant of various causes, the disease did not stop the star who, during his medical treatment, continued to be a uan advocate for climate change activismand coordinating weekly meetings and gatherings virtually, in the midst of the pandemic and now in person through that nonprofit.
“The effects wore off just as I went to DC for the first live Fire Drill Fridays rally. Thank God for that, because it’s been a very active and busy week,” the actress added in her post.
“In addition to the rally, I’ve held several meetings and spoken to the Democracy Alliance twice, all in an effort to stop Senator Joe Manchin’s side deal, which climate activists call the dirty deal,” he said of his activity more recently on the issue that worries you
He added, “This deal, called ‘permit reform,’ seeks to speed up fossil fuel projects, does serious damage to critical environmental protections, and reduces the public’s ability to make contributions. It basically hits hard-pressed marginalized communities.” disproportionate due to fossil fuel pollution.
Privileged, with conscience
Concerned about her surroundings and with great empathy, she assured: “I know I’m privileged because I am lucky to have health insurance and access to the best doctors and treatments. I realize it and it’s painful. Many families in the United States with the same situation, at some point, don’t have access to the quality health care that I’m getting, and that’s not good.”
On the other hand, the actress has not stopped working: in addition to presenting a preview of the last episodes of the seventh season of Grace and Frankiehe also participated in the dubbing of the animated series Fortune and Stoner cats.
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