TV host announces her own death on social media

Australian TV big Fiona MacDonald announced her ain death connected Instagram aft battling a neurological disorder for the past 3 years.

“Farewell my friends,” the 67-year-old broadcaster posthumously posted precocious Wednesday night. “My sister Kylie is posting this due to the fact that I person near the gathering — Hopefully I’m looking down from a cloud.”

MacDonald — known for starring connected the Australian kids’ amusement “Wombat” successful the 1980s, arsenic good arsenic hosting the crippled amusement “It’s a Knockout” — told her supporters that her decease brought a precise pugnacious fewer months to a peaceful close, witnessed by her 2 sons and her sister.

“While I’ve ne'er wanted to die, the thought of leaving my tortured assemblage was a relief,” she confessed.

MacDonald was diagnosed with centrifugal neurone illness (MND) successful November 2021, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The National Institutes of Health picture MND arsenic “a radical of progressive neurological disorders that destruct centrifugal neurons, the cells that power skeletal musculus enactment specified arsenic walking, breathing, speaking, and swallowing.”

According to MacDonald, she was incapable to swallow nutrient oregon process macromolecule drinks successful caller months. She’d been “slowly starving,” losing spot and dealing with backmost pain.

“The achromatic humour that served maine good done the archetypal years of this travel turned to despair,” she lamented. “I made the determination aft overmuch psyche searching to cease each aesculapian supports and yet spell into infirmary for extremity of beingness palliative care.”

MacDonald said her emotion for surviving made letting spell particularly difficult, but hoped those she near down remembered her laughter.

“Let’s not telephone it goodbye arsenic I anticipation to spot you again connected the different side,” she wrote.