The medical doctor built her following sharing her diagnosis and journey with her fans.
Dr. Kimberley Nix, a TikToker known for her "Get Ready With Me" and cancer awareness videos, has died. She was 31.
The news of her death, following a battle with metastatic sarcoma, was shared by her in one final video to her followers on Thursday.
"My journey here is over and i cant thank each and every one of you enough! You have all made me so happy and your comments and support are more than enough to have gotten anyone through anything! If you wish, Please donate through my link in bio to sarcoma cancer research and follow my husband in his updates @LightestCheese 💕 #death #dying #palliative #sarcoma #undifferentiatedpleomorphicsarcoma #cancer #cancerpatient #md #resident #medschool," the caption on the video read.
In the 9-minute video, Kimberley sits in her bathroom and films one final makeup tutorial video and reflects on the awareness she has brought to the disease.
"Hello followers, if you're seeing this message, I've passed away peacefully," she says. Kimberley goes on to apply her makeup as she introduces herself to anyone who is just finding her page, and shares what she has used her platform for in the last few years.
@cancerpatientmd My journey here is over and i cant thank each and every one of you enough! You have all made me so happy and your comments and support are more than enough to have gotten anyone thriugh anything! If you wish, Please donate through my link in bio to sarcoma cancer research and follow my husband in his updates @LightestCheese 💕 #death #dying #palliative #sarcoma #undifferentiatedpleomorphicsarcoma #cancer #cancerpatient #md #resident #medschool ♬ original sound - Cancer Patient, MD
Kimberley also smiles as she looks back on the things she was able to accomplish, including her medical education and seeing Taylor Swift on the Eras Tour.
"I had a beautiful life," she says. "And I'm so proud of it."
Kimberley becomes emotional as she talks about the most heartbreaking part of her death -- not being able to grow old with her husband, whom she calls "the love of her life."
"The most beautiful love and my only sadness in dying is knowing that we didn't get to grow old together," she says through tears. "Everything else is totally bearable, because that is the only thing that really matters."
Kimberley signs off by thanking her followers one last time for being a part of her journey and encouraging them to donate to the Sarcoma Alliance.
"I just can't thank you all enough for being so supportive for your comments, for cheering me on, for helping us feel not alone in this process. This community has meant the absolute world to me and I can't thank you enough," she says. "I will miss you, TikTok. I love you all, thank you for this amazing, amazing opportunity. I am in happy tears because you have all made me find so much purpose in the end of my life and I can't thank you enough. Thank you from the bottom of my heart always."
Before ending the video, Kimberley gives one final look for the camera.
Kimberley was from Calgary, Alberta, and was 28 years old and in her final year of her internal medicine core residency when she got her diagnosis.
Kimberley is survived by her husband, Michael, her parents and pets.
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