We all have bad dreams every so often.
Sometimes our nightmares are easy to shake in the morning, though at other times they stick with us throughout the day.
We may also have the same dream over and over again — until it actually comes true.
That's exactly what happened to 30-year-old Abi Galatia, who spent years dreaming that she would eventually be diagnosed with cancer.
Eventually, Abi did get diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, and she only found out because of an encounter with a random stranger.
Keep reading to learn how Abi, who is now in remission, learned about her rare cancer.
[H/T: Daily Mail]
Thumbnail Photo: Facebook / Abi Rhian Galatia // Instagram / hideagate
Abi, 30, says she has always known she was going to get cancer.
Three years before her own diagnosis, Abi lost her mother to stomach cancer. Abi told Daily Mail,
I lost my mum to cancer three years before and they thought I had what she had. I always had a feeling I was gonna have cancer, I used to have dreams and stuff, I sound mental, but from when I was about 12 I had them all the time… I knew me and my mum were gonna have cancer. When my mum had it the year after she died I got these dreams back really strongly and then they stopped and I got visions of a dog attacking me.
Abi says her friends thought she was "mental" for her thinking this way, but she had started having recurring dreams about being diagnosed with cancer at age 12.
When she was 26 years old, Abi did get diagnosed with cancer — but it was a chance encounter with a stranger that lead to that diagnosis.
At the time, Abi was working at a charity in South Africa. One of the people she was working with approached her one day and said, "I've had three dreams about you."
Abi ended up going to visit the woman who'd dreamed about her at her home.
As Abi was leaving, she realized the woman's dog was trying to bite her. She had to pull her hand through a gate to prevent the bite. Despite the fact that Abi had "very gently" pulled her hand through the gate, her entire arm snapped.
Abi was obviously in extreme pain. It didn't make any sense that her entire arm had shattered from such a small action.
Abi's doctor sent her off for an X-ray — and that's when everything started to make sense.
Abi had a massive tumor on her arm. It stretched from her shoulder down to her elbow. For six months that tumor had grown on Abi's arm, and she had no idea it was there.
Abi was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, but she wasn't shocked.
She told Daily Mail: "It's crazy that it happened. It's like I predicted it."
Abi had chemotherapy for a year, as well as an experimental surgery due to the rarity of her cancer.
During her illness, Abi took up photography. Her friends put together a fund raiser to buy her a laptop, a camera, and photo-editing software. For Abi, it was a great way to escape during her treatment. She told Daily Mail:
In and out of treatment it gave me hope I wouldn’t die. When I finished the treatment that summer I did loads of weddings and kind of taught myself how to photograph and that has been a key thing as well to keep me going.
Thankfully, Abi is now in remission. If it wasn't for that chance encounter, Abi might not have discovered her cancer with enough time to save her life.
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