“I was in searing pain,” she toldPeople.
“I couldn’t get any rest.”
The only way she could prevent it was by using eye drops every two hours during the night.
Sometimes, it even led to migraines.
Bream hid her health battle from her colleagues at Fox, only confiding in her husband.
Unfortunately, that’s not what happened.
In fact, the doctor didn’t take her symptoms seriously at all.
“You know what I think?
You’re very emotional,” Bream recalled being told in an article she wrote for Women’s Health.
“He didn’t offer me much of a diagnosis.
“I vowed I’d never go back.
“I was spiraling into a darker and darker place,” she confessed.
“I felt the walls closing in around me.
I had no answers.
I had nothing but chronic pain and a mystery.”
In the piece she wrote for Women’s Health, Bream recalls how she stopped truly living.
“Every day simply became about survival,” she wrote.
“I totally got it.
There were many times I couldn’t imagine living another 40 years in endless pain and debilitating fatigue.”
Clinch told People that while the condition has no cure, symptoms can be treated.
The diagnosis came after months of Sheldon experiencing a ringing sound in his ear.
Doctors were puzzled, and eventually, they decided to check for tumors.
Unfortunately, they discovered one resembling the size of a golf ball.
Luckily, it wasn’t.
Bream recalled how the whole ordeal changed their lives.
Bream has been no stranger when it comes to the fear of losing a loved one.
In 2019, she took toFacebookto pay tribute to her father, who died suddenly six years prior.
“I never got to say goodbye,” Bream lamented.
“I remember back then I was so worried I would forget what his voice sounded like.
I haven’t, and I remember all the important things he taught me,” she wrote.
In 2016, the Fox News host took toFacebookon the one year anniversary of receiving the scary news.
What made Bream’s cancer journey all the more arduous was her decision to largely keep her diagnosis private.
Trump later attacked Bream onTruth Social.
“I never knew Shannon Bream was so ‘naive.’
