I Learned I Only Had Months To Live

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Jenny is 20 years old and she comes from Norway.

Her story starts when Jenny was 5 and a half. She was a happy healthy young girl up until then. She was engaged in sports, she loved being outside and active, swimming, climbing trees. Jenny was on vacation at a cabin with her family, away from civilization, when her streak of disasters started.

Actually happened, Jenny randomly felt sick one morning. Apparently she got chickenpox. That’s quite normal for young kids that age, everyone gets it and everyone gets over it, so nothing to worry about, right? Wrong. The following day she got even sicker. All of a sudden, during the night, she started getting trouble breathing, and her mom rushed her to the nearest hospital. She drove with all the windows open, to help Jenny’s breathing as much as she could. Mom also kept talking to Jenny to keep her conscious. But on the way to the hospital Jenny got even worse and could barely recognize her mom.

At the hospital they were told that Jenny had a collapsed lung. Not something you’d expect from an ordinary chickenpox. Examinations and analyses brought forth a new horrifying diagnosis: acute leukemia.

Jenny’s mom would not believe what the doctors told them next. The said that "there was no point in trying to save Jenny’s life as the cancer would kill her soon anyway". So they refused to take her in and help her. They told Jenny’s mom that she should just face the fact that Jenny would die and try to make her final months as enjoyable as possible instead of wasting them on painful medical procedures.

Jenny’s mom was outraged. Thankfully, she’s also a doctor. She said: “They taught me to fight for every patient’s life. Don’t you dare look me in the eye and tell me my 5-year-old daughter is going to die without even trying to help her”. She then demanded that Jenny was transferred to a different hospital.

The new hospital provided Jenny with help and treatment. The only problem was that the doctors didn’t have the right equipment to help her collapsed lung. So she didn’t get enough oxygen to her blood to survive, let alone get better. She remembers looking in the mirror and seeing her pupils were blown wide.

Mom had to transfer Jenny to a hospital in Sweden in order to cure her lung. After a few weeks of treatments there Jenny got a lot better and was cleared to go back to Norway to start her treatment for the cancer.

Sadly… this was barely the start of Jenny’s story. After she started her chemotherapy, she rapidly got much worse, because her lungs were still too weak to give her blood enough oxygen. And leukemia is an illness of the blood, after all! Jenny got sent back to Sweden. If the doctors from that first hospital were right, she would have probably been dead already. But they were wrong.

actually happened, the Swedish doctors finally managed to stabilize Jenny’s condition. She was able to return to Norway and continue with her cancer treatment. And this time, she seemed to respond great to the therapy! So great in fact that she was eventually allowed to go home and live with Mom and Dad in-between treatments. They had to keep the house spotless, Jenny could only eat what the doctors permitted, and she couldn’t even think of doing sports again yet. Nevertheless, she seemed to be steadily on her way to a normal healthy life.

One time, Jenny had been staying with her family for a while. They were having a great time and discussing the possibility of going to school soon. But Jenny suddenly got really really sick. She was nauseous and shaking, which looked like a leukemia relapse. Mom rushed her to the hospital again. This time it was for the cancer getting worse, but also because she had gotten both a stroke and cerebral hemorrhage. It happens to a lot of little kids with leukemia. They rescued Jenny: she was able to think clearly and move and even talk somewhat. But the stroke left the left side of her body completely paralyzed. Speech therapy and massage and a wheelchair were a part of Jenny’s life now.

Thankfully, that was the end of her trials. Despite the paralysis, Jenny was almost cancer-free. There was nowhere to go but up.

By her 6th birthday, Jenny had defeated cancer completely and could go back home. She was even walking out of her hospital room. On crutches of course, but still!

Long years of recovery lay ahead. Jenny has used the past 15 years training and strengthening the left side of her body, and she’s almost able to move as easily as she could as a kid. And even though Jenny was told as a teen that she might not be able to have children, she now has a lovely son who is 4 months old.

Jenny’s deeply grateful to her mom for leaving no stone unturned and fighting for her life to the very end. Never lose hope. Even though a tragedy may strike, it’s never the end until you give up.

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