Posted on 04/22/2023 10:07:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A woman running the London Marathon for her ex-boyfriend has admitted she left him because she couldn't cope with his cancer battle.
Danielle Epstein, 32, was buying a house with Jelle Fresen in London last year when he was diagnosed with a rare form of brain tumour at just 37.
He needed a complex operation, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and had to learn to walk again.
While all this was going on physics teacher Danielle began having panic attacks and her mental health plummeted - so she ended their relationship.
She moved to Thailand but remained friends with Jelle - and is now running a marathon for a brain tumour charity.
She said she was still 'figuring out' her friendship with Jelle, adding: 'I felt like the most awful person, leaving somebody because they have cancer, but it was damaging my mental health and it wasn't helping Jelle.'
The couple were buying a house in Palmers Green, North London, when Jelle, who works as a Google software engineer, began vomiting and having dizzy spells.
After numerous consultations with GPs and ineffective treatments for an ear infection, the vomiting became much worse.
Jelle went for a private MRI scan using his health insurance with Google.
Doctors found a 'grade 4 medulloblastoma' tumour - normally a cancer that affects children - and he was booked in for surgery in September.
Danielle said: 'We were on a certain path to a certain future and within one day we knew it wasn't going to work out like that any more.
'I was so worried and devastated, I couldn't sleep or eat.
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He’s better off without her.
I hope he finds a real woman that is worthy of him.
I think Danielle Epstein is trying to break the record for hate mail.
Sorry, not a profile in courage, rather a profile in guilt washing.
I sure in his hour of need and support he needs her to ditch him like a hole in the head. But he is definitely better off without the ‘fair weather friend’. Maybe some pretty nurse will catch his eye.
She’s not attractive but she certainly doesn’t have thunder thighs. She is however, a bitch.
She’s a PoS.
I wonder if she’s George Lopez’ niece?
I witness statements from mental health professionals claiming there are more male narcissists than female but that's not true. The mental health profession doesn't recognize how women manifest narcissism compared to men.
She showed her true colors and is virtue whining in a desperate attempt to stave off the reality that her only future partner will be some miserable simp who's willing to overlook her behavior. She's going to find simp, buy a cat, or die alone.
Everything I could say regarding my feelings towards this woman is unprintable in this forum.
This isn't a competition!
He can do better. She’s kind of ugly.
Wow. How selfish. I hope and pray Jelle fully recovers and finds a compatible woman with a kind heart. One who understands what “in sickness and in health” means.
At her age, with those looks and that personality, you are looking at a future cat lady.
I’d say that he dodged a bullet when she left him ...
British women are some of the worst white women.
A great part of it he story is how bad socialized medicine is. It is took private medical insurance to get the scan he needed.
Talk about his good fortune losing that thick legged shrew
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