Deep breathing!
29 -year -old Jaclyn Keely is preparing to run the RBC Brooklyn Half Marathon organized by New York Road runners on Saturday.
Since completing the 13.1 -mile race last year, Kely has diagnosed a mucinous adenocarcinoma from stage 1, removed the lower lobe of the left lung and withdrawing an excrucent recovery.
“I just want to cross the finish line with a smile,” Brooklynite told The Post.
Mucinous adenocarcinoma is a rare type of cancer that can be developed in any organ, especially the chest, colon, rectum and lung. DNA mutations cause abnormal cell growth, leading to a tumor surrounded by many mucus.
Keely learned that something was fine when the lung collapsed in 2018 when he had breakfast.
The episode is known as a spontaneous pneumothorax: the air accumulates in the space between the lung and the wall of the thorax, causing the lung to partially or completely collapse. It may arise from underlying lung conditions such as COPD or occurs for no apparent reason.
Keely went to the emergency room, where the doctors scanned their chest and noticed a nodule in the lung.
“Due to my age and my activity level and that I was” never smoker “, they [said I] He had no reason to be worried, “said Keely, an anesthesia technologist.
It was re -written over the years. The nodule remained without discomfort until last fall.
“My pulmonologist said,” I want a biopsy, just curious to see what it is, “Kely said.” And he returned cancerous, so there was really no symptoms, which is what scares. “
Keely had suffered from lung collapses before the severe incident in 2018 and had long experienced pain in his chest and breathing for unknown reasons.
Despite these struggles, it started running in November 2023, almost a year before the diagnosis of cancer.
“I find it a little fun, but I woke up one morning and decided that I would go for a marathon, and that was a bit,” he said.
Operation increases the demand for body oxygen to feed the muscles they work, so breathing is common. That is why building slowly and listening to your body was key.
He followed online guides and completed New York Road Runners’s 9+1 program to get TCS entrance to New York City.
But the realization of cancer and post -October lung surgery clung their style.
“I felt like I was in a new body and needed to learn its limitations,” Keely explained. “And that was very, very difficult for me suddenly to limit -me, where it had been really really felt, really strong and young and healthy.”
Started running two or three weeks after the procedure. Its first time was about 0.2 kilometers.
He made frequent walks to improve his lung capacity and finally incorporated longer bursts of running.
“I got to the point where … I was able to run a complete 10k,” Kely shared. “He clicked and that I was … return.”
The lower lobe keely had taken away will not grow again, but he is not worried that his lung capacity returns to normal. It is also scanned every three months to ensure that cancer has not returned.
She hopes that her trip to the Saturday starting line will encourage others to obtain medical tests and recommended reviews, especially when some cancers become more common in people under 50.
Explorations can identify lung cancer in their early stages, when treatment is more effective. About 10% to 20% of patients with lung cancer, like Keely, have never smoked.
“Any person with lungs can obtain lung cancer,” Kely said. “I never thought of a million years that this would happen to me … especially so young.”
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