Read the haunting message a dead woman, 38, left from beyond the grave – after a kidney transplant left her vulnerable to cancer
A woman has posted a haunting message from beyond the grave after she died from cancer years after receiving a kidney transplant.
Western Australian woman Christie Louis, 38, died on Friday after melanoma spread throughout her body and to her brain.
Ms Louis’ younger sister Kathleen Francis posted her final message on Facebook.
‘Hi everyone. Well, if you are reading this post my time has come to an end,’ it read.
‘I asked my sister to post on my page. My latest battle was melanoma. By the time they found it the cancer had spread and was stage 4.
‘I fought it hard with medication and radiation, but it made its way to my brain and I was left with only a few weeks to live.
‘In the last days sepsis set in and it was a quick process from there. I passed away on the 3/1 with my beautiful Max (her dog) by my side.
‘Thank you to everyone who made my life a brighter place and helped me through each hurdle (there were many). Christie xx.’
A woman has posted a haunting message from beyond the grave after she received a kidney transplant and died from cancer years later
Ms Louis had a kidney transplant in 2021. She was diagnosed with melanoma at the end of July 2024.
She wrote how that her immune system ‘was so low it couldn’t fight the melanoma and it went rampant’.
Ms Louis posted on Facebook in September 2024: ‘#fucancer who knew a transplant could give you terminal stage 4 malignant metastatic melanoma.’
Ms Francis has created a GoFundMe to help raise funds for her sister’s funeral, wanting ‘a beautiful send off for our beautiful angel’.
She said her sister had ‘many medical challenges in her short 38 years’ but that she ‘took all medications prescribed and I really thought if anyone can beat this it would be her’.
Western Australian woman Christie Louis, 38, died on Friday after her melanoma spread throughout her body and to her brain
‘Her first 3 month check the medications had done an amazing job and Christie was in high spirits that she had a lot of time left,’ she wrote.
However she was informed by doctors on December 3 the cancer had spread to her brain and she was given only three to four weeks to live.
She began radiation to buy more time and had almost completed the treatment when seizures began.
Ms Louis was admitted to hospital on December 30 with severe sepsis and transferred to a hospice the next day before she died last week.
Ms Francis wrote her sister ‘had the biggest heart and even till the very end all she wanted was a reassuring cuddle’.
‘I miss her with all my heart and my goal now is to have a celebration of her life that she will be watching from above and wishing she was there,’ she wrote.
Devastated friends shared tributes following the news of Ms Louis’ death.
‘Oh Chrissy – you have suffered so bravely for so long. May you fly high and rest in peace. Sending healing thoughts to your family,’ one wrote.
‘Our friendship meant the world to me. Rest well my dear friend,’ another wrote.’
Associate professor Peter Hughes, who is lead physician for transplantation at Royal Melbourne Hospital, told Daily Mail that transplants provided patients with a better quality of life.
‘As with any major procedure, receiving a transplant comes with risk and it’s important this is discussed between patient and doctor at an early stage,’ he said.
‘People who receive an organ transplant can be at greater risk of some cancers due to the immunosuppression – that is, the medication used to reduce the chance of rejection of the transplant.
‘But, on average, patients who receive a transplant have much better health, live longer and have a better quality of life than those who, in the instance of kidney transplants, remain on dialysis.’
