She’s Young. She’s Fit. She’s Got Cancer.
Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog.
Name: Jen Singer
Occupation: Mother of two
Home: Kinnelon, NJ
Type of cancer: B-cell Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Age diagnosed: 40
Jen Singer wasn’t concerned. OK, she was having trouble dragging herself off the Serta every morning–but with two small children, it was normal to feel fatigued, right? And those nagging aches? Well, considering that she played tennis and took spinning classes, not all that shocking. Besides, the youthful 39-year-old was still surprised when grocery-store clerks called her “ma’am.” What was there to worry about?
So when the New Jersey resident started to feel sharp pain in her shoulder blade, she sucked it up. “Some people would have gone to the doctor,” she says. “But I hadn’t felt my best in so long–one problem or another was nagging at me.”
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