{"id":237414,"date":"2026-04-06T17:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237414\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:42:07","slug":"texas-tv-meteorologist-shares-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237414\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas TV meteorologist shares cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas TV meteorologist gave viewers a shocking life update, sharing news of a kidney cancer diagnosis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Diamond Dickson, who came to Corpus Christi NBC affiliate KRIS 6 in 2024, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWsDE9hj6oc\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">an\u00a0Instagram post on April 3<\/a> that &#8220;the past few months have been the hardest of my life.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DS1AQFEFdMw\/?img_index=1\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Back in December 2025<\/a>,\u00a0Dickson opened up about her health, saying she was in the hospital\u00a0for nearly a week with kidney concerns and &#8220;intense flank pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the December post, she said, &#8220;What I thought was a severe kidney infection turned out not to be. Doctors here are calling me a rare\/unicorn case because I\u2019m healthy, eat well, and work out, but I still have rare symptoms. I was barely walking on my own from how intense the pain was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It took multiple biopsies, MRIs, CT and PET scans to finally be diagnosed with &#8220;a very rare and aggressive form of kidney cancer,&#8221; according to Dickson. She wrote on social media that it &#8220;feels surreal to say I have one of the deadliest kidney cancers&#8221; and noted that she&#8217;s already undergoing chemotherapy to target a tumor in her left kidney, with kidney removal surgery coming next. While the treatment has &#8220;tested my body in unimaginable ways,&#8221;\u00a0Dickson said &#8220;I have no choice but to fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to beat it,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Most days I\u2019m completely depleted of energy, but my faith keeps me going. I have a fighter spirit, and I refuse to let this cancer take me out. I\u2019m not done living in my purpose; therefore, in Jesus name, I\u2019m already healed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the post, Dickson emphasized how she&#8217;s leaning on her faith during her treatment \u2014 a part of her life she&#8217;s been open about since sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cq07Wc1OGtg\/?img_index=1\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">photos of her baptism in 2023<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While there is a low survival rate and technically no cure, I know God is right here with me, and it&#8217;s part of my assignment in this season, and maybe for life,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This is a tough journey, an ugly one too, but I know God wouldn\u2019t have me fighting this beast if he wasn\u2019t going to do it with me. In Psalms 3:3, it says &#8216;But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high.&#8217; It is because of Him that I am made strong in my weakness.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MySA reached out to Dickson for comment, but did not hear back at the time of publication.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas TV meteorologist gave viewers a shocking life update, sharing news of a kidney cancer diagnosis.\u00a0 Diamond&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,2107,847,820],"class_list":{"0":"post-237414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-mysaentertainment","12":"tag-mysanews","13":"tag-mysastaff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}