Woman gleefully celebrates cancer-free diagnosis by ringing ‘Hope Bell’
Lakesha Ball celebrated winning her battle against cancer by ringing the University of Maryland Proton Center's 'Hope Bell'
This is the joyous moment a woman celebrated winning her battle against breast cancer.
Lakesha Ball officially became a cancer survivor earlier this month after doctors at the University of Maryland Proton Center told her she was free from the disease.
Ball celebrated by enthusiastically ringing the medical center’s ‘Hope Bell’, which patients are encouraged to jangle to announce their last day of treatment.
‘When it came time for me to ring the bell, I got there super early. I was super excited. My whole family was there,’ Ball said.
‘I stepped in front of the bell and I said, “Thank you Lord” and everybody started screaming and when I grabbed that string on the bell. I wasn’t trying to take those people’s bell out of the wall… Yes I was.’
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Ball was originally diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2017 and the bad news compounded when she found another lump the following December.
She said she was only brought to tears twice as she went through chemotherapy treatment, but the day she was given a clean bill of health made three.
Her joy and relief can be seen as she yanks on the bell as hard as she can, increasing in ferocity as her family cheers her on.
‘But I could not stop, all that pain, that agony. Everything I’ve been through, I released on that bell when I rang it. When I walked out of that clinic that day, I am free, that’s all I can say. I am free.’
The original video was posted on Instagram by Ball’s daughter, M’Rhaiyah Mitchell with the caption: ‘Today my Mom is CANCER FREE…Today my mother RUNG THAT BELL.’
It has been viewed over a million times.