WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Kim Ratcliff has greeted viewers and listeners for many years as the co-anchor of WECT’s Carolina in the Morning and WECT News at Midday newscasts. Kim is going to be off the air for the next few weeks, though, as she deals with a health issue.
You may remember that Kim missed some time earlier this year after she fell at home and suffered a head injury. That fall, although it kept her off the air for a few weeks, might have saved her life. While doing a scan to check her condition and to determine what caused her fall, doctors noticed a nodule on one of Kim’s lungs.
“When a few months went by and the nodule didn’t go away, I was told to go get basically a biopsy, which is called a bronchoscopy in the medical world,” Kim explained. “It determined I had something called adenocarcinoma, a very slow growing cancer, and later they found out it’s a Stage 1 cancer basically.”…