Emily Hausman says she’s taking “hit after hit after hit,” and yet, she’s laughing.

“It’s been such a crazy year,” Hausman, 43, tells TODAY.com.

First, Hausman became a mother, then she got laid off, then she had a hematoma, then she moved back home, then she learned she had a blood clot, then she got an infection, then she was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer.

At her lowest, Hausman questioned if things were really that bad. Was her life as bewildering as it seemed, or was she just being dramatic? So, she went to the internet.

“I didn’t think anyone was going to care,” she admits. Instead, her video describing this series of events garnered 1.6 million views on TikTok . “I just kind of felt like I was drowning, (it was) really overwhelming. And I just wanted to kind of vent,” she says.

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