“She conscionable wants to spot however it’s gonna go,” “Mama June” Shannon said of her eldest daughter, Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell, erstwhile speaking to Entertainment Tonight. Anna, 28, has been battling signifier 4 cancer since the commencement of the year, and June, 43, said that astatine this point, the household has accepted that the extremity is near. “For me, it’s an affectional rollercoaster sometimes. Mentally it’s ever connected my mind… We cognize it’s terminal. “She’s signifier 4. She’s not gonna spell into remission. We’ve each accepted that, truthful I conscionable archer radical 1 time astatine a clip ’cause you ne'er know.”
“We don’t cognize what to expect due to the fact that the crab is precise aggressive, and it grew from thing to thing immense connected the near broadside of her assemblage truly fast,” she told ET. The household doesn’t cognize “what is going to hap adjacent present erstwhile the chemo starts to travel retired of her body.”

So far, Anna has completed 4 rounds of chemotherapy for adrenal carcinoma. This crab is simply a “rare illness successful which malignant (cancer) cells signifier successful the outer furniture of the adrenal gland.” Anna was diagnosed successful January aft reportedly suffering tummy aches. Doctors reportedly recovered that she had cancerous cells successful her lungs, kidneys, and liver, and she instantly underwent treatment. In March 2023, she went nationalist with her disease.
After 4 rounds of chemo, the adjacent measurement would beryllium immune therapy of objective trials, but astatine this stage, Anna whitethorn take an end-of-life enactment and unrecorded retired her days arsenic champion arsenic she can.
Despite this precocious grim prognosis, June and her daughter, Lauryn “Pumpkin” Efird, said that Anna is “doing beauteous good” and handling this quality well. “[Anna] tin inactive spell to the market store, she tin thrust herself, she’s inactive capable to instrumentality the kids to and from places,” Lauryn told ET before noting that Anna “doesn’t person hair, she has nary eyebrows, she doesn’t person immoderate hairsbreadth connected her arms oregon thing similar that.”

Lauryn besides spoke astir however Anna’s kids – Kaitlyn, 10, and Kylee, 7 – are handling the concern the champion that they can. “The 10-year-old is aware, I don’t deliberation she afloat understands,” Lauryn said. “I deliberation she understands that Mommy is sick and Mommy mightiness not beryllium present for a while… She’s 10, but she’s a batch much mature than that due to the fact that she’s been raised astir older people.”
“Kaitlyn was ever adjacent with Anna, but present she doesn’t spell anyplace without Anna,” added June. “I get that due to the fact that she’s reasoning if Anna goes somewhere, past possibly Anna mightiness not beryllium astatine the location erstwhile she gets back.”
Lauryn is inactive hopeful for a miracle. “Honestly, who’s not to accidental a twelvemonth from now, they’ll person a cure? The aesculapian tract is increasing each azygous day. There’s ever something,” she told ET. “Think astir however quick[ly] they came retired with a COVID vaccine and things similar that. I genuinely judge [that] yet determination volition beryllium a cure for immoderate benignant of cancer.”
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