Deep breath!
Jaclyn Kelyn, 29, is preparing to run half of the RBC Brooklyn marathon organized by the New York Road Runners on Saturday.
Since the end of the 13.1 mile racing last year, Keyely was diagnosed with phase 1 mucous adenocarcinoma, had the lower lobe of its left lung removed and endured a irritating recovery.
“I just want to overcome the finish line with a smile,” Brooklynite the post told.
Mucosal adenocarcinoma is a rare type of cancer that can develop in any organ, especially chest, colon, rectum and lungs. DNA mutations cause abnormal cell growth, resulting in a tumor surrounded by many mucous membranes.
Keely learned that something was wrong when her lungs crashed in 2018 as she made breakfast.
The episode is known as a spontaneous pneumothorax – the air accumulates in the space between the lungs and the chest wall, causing the lungs to collapse partially or completely. It can arise from the basic lung conditions as COPD or occur for no apparent reason.
Keely went to the emergency room, where doctors scanned her chest and noticed a knot in the lungs.
“Because of the age and level of my activity and that I was a” never smoker “, they [said I] There was no reason to worry, ”Keely, an anesthesia technologist, recalled.
It was saved over the years. The knot remained undisturbed – until last fall.
“My pulmonologist said,” I want to biopsy it, simply out of curiosity to see what it is, “” Kely said. “And she turned cancerous, so there really had no symptoms, which is what is scary.”
Keely had suffered lung collapse before the severe incident in 2018 and had experienced time pain in the chest and shortness of breath for unknown reasons.
Despite those wars, she began to run in November 2023 – nearly a year before her cancer diagnosis.
“It sounds a funny kind of sounds, but I just woke up one morning and decided that I would run a marathon, and that was a kind of it,” she said.
Running increases the body’s demand for oxygen to nourish the working muscles, so gasping is common. That is why the slow construction and hearing of her body were essential.
She followed the online management guides and completed New York Street 9+1 program to gain access to this year’s New York City marathon.
But finding cancer and subsequent lung surgery in October raised its style.
“I felt like I was in a new body and I had to learn his limitations,” Keey explained. “And that was just very, very difficult for me to suddenly be limited, where before I really felt, really strong and young and healthy.”
She started running two or three weeks after the procedure. Its first jaw was about 0.2 miles.
She continued her frequent walks to improve her lung capacity and eventually involved longer running outbursts.
“I arrived at the point where … I’ve been able to run a full 10k,” Share Keely. “It’s a kind of click then I was … getting back to it.”
The lower kely lobe had removed will not increase, but it does not worry because its lung capacity is very normal. It is also scanned every three months to make sure the cancer has not returned.
She hopes her journey to the start line on Saturday encourages others to take medical tests and recommended checkups, especially as some cancers become more common in people under 50.
Scanning can identify lung cancer in its early stages, when treatment is more effective. About 10% to 20% of patients with lung cancer, like kely, have never smoked.
“Lung doctrines can get lung cancer,” Keely said. “I never thought in a million years that it would happen to me … especially so new.”
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