{"id":14337,"date":"2018-02-16T12:33:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=14337"},"modified":"2022-01-22T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T19:30:09","slug":"shine-champion-lufisto-reveals-battling-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/02\/16\/shine-champion-lufisto-reveals-battling-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"SHINE Champion LuFisto Reveals She Has Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, women&#8217;s wrestling legend and current <strong>SHINE<\/strong> Champion <strong>LuFisto<\/strong> took to Twitter and her website to announce that she&#8217;s recently been diagnosed with cervical cancer. Her full statement is below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KrUUxWTXEP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/KrUUxWTXEP<\/a>&#8230; I don&#39;t know what else to say. Everything is in there. Thank you. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S5NoHRnW29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/S5NoHRnW29<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LuFisto (@LuFisto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LuFisto\/status\/964309465343414272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve been debating if this is something I should share. I don\u2019t even know if this is the right thing to do.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Not many know but I\u2019ve been struggling with heavy depression for over a year now. I\u2019m on medication and the anxiety, sadness and pain has been so heavy that I also developed IBS. I also gained a lot of weight. For those who are talking \u201cHey, did you see? LuFisto is fat again\u201d\u2026 Well, that is the reason. I might get into this subject on how I got there in the future but not right now\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m not writing this piece for this reason. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>After my post about my 38th birthday today, many friends and fans reached out because they are wondering what is wrong. A lot of my fans have shown support and I\u2019ve always said that I would\u2019ve quit a long time ago if it wasn\u2019t from them and that remains true, more than ever. Therefore, although I am a very private person, I feel that I need to be totally honest with you all, the people who have supported me for all these years, family and friends.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The main reason why I\u2019ve been feeling like crap is probably because I need to talk about it and I don\u2019t feel right hiding something. So here it is\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I have cervical cancer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They found the cells last week and I need to get a surgery to remove them\u2026 Not the burning thing, a surgery. Although it is not a big procedure for now, I still have to go under the knife and honestly, I\u2019m not too thrilled about it. I know I\u2019ve been distant to family and friends and I feel I haven\u2019t been as productive anywhere because I\u2019m too much in my head.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The cells being very close to the uterus so they also need to take samples to check if the disease did not get in there. Today, I was also told that my insurance was not covering the whole procedure and it is way too overpriced for something that is supposed to be simple. It is probably the Canadian in me that can\u2019t understand why people\u2019s health is treated the same way as if you would buy a used car in the United States\u2026 I\u2019m extremely upset and at this point, I don\u2019t even know what will happen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m trying to get answers from the hospital about the costs and options but I keep getting no answers. \u201cWe will call you back!\u201d They never do. When they did, they didn\u2019t even have the right information. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Also, if they find bad cells in the uterus, I will need a full hysterectomy to prevent the disease to spread anywhere else. Not that I want to get into the \u201cvagina\u201d too much but, hysterectomy means that they will remove everything on the inside if you don\u2019t know the medical term.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The heart defect\/ stoke, the injuries, the betrayals, the hard work that doesn\u2019t pay off, the depressions, the IBS and now this\u2026 Some people, close and far, have been through way worse and I don\u2019t want to complain while there are people losing loved one and people getting shot at schools, which is despicable and really kills all the faith I have in the human race. I\u2019m just so tired. And frustrated too.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Anyway, these are the facts and where I\u2019m at now. Apparently, recovery is no longer than 2 weeks so I shouldn\u2019t miss any shows as I\u2019m trying to work things out so the surgery happens on a week I already took off, that is if I can get the surgery if there is a way to lower the costs. Hopefully, I will get some answers soon. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If for some reasons this situation would affect my performances, my availability to you all or my mood and patience, please forgive me. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>God bless and see you at Nova Pro and Glory Pro this weekend. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>LuFisto<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following the initial announcement yesterday, many reports apparently made the news to be worse off than it was, so LuFisto clarified her situation on her Facebook this afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14340\" style=\"width: 503px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14340\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/02\/Capture-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/02\/Capture-2.png 503w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/02\/Capture-2-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/02\/Capture-2-100x70.png 100w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/02\/Capture-2-218x150.png 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot from facebook.com\/LuFisto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, women&#8217;s wrestling legend and current SHINE Champion LuFisto took to Twitter and her website to announce that she&#8217;s recently been diagnosed with cervical cancer. Her full statement is below: From https:\/\/t.co\/KrUUxWTXEP&#8230; I don&#39;t know what else to say. Everything is in there. Thank you. pic.twitter.com\/S5NoHRnW29 &mdash; LuFisto (@LuFisto) February 16, 2018 I\u2019ve been debating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":14341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8072,2,6,319,317],"tags":[448,308],"class_list":["post-14337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-indies","category-featured","category-north-america","category-shine","category-women","tag-lufisto","tag-shine"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}