The cancer had spread to her brain, but scans now show she is cancer-free: “It’s not gonna win today. I am going to keep pushing.”
Kristina Baum, 37, had an inauspicious start to distance running: She signed up for her first race, the“I thought I might as well just show up and try it, and see as far I can get,” she tellsShe ran eight miles without stopping and walked the last two. The physical after-effects were rough—she threw up twice, and was in pain for days—but finishing the race completely hooked her on running.
“It was one of those life-changing calls. I was crying, trying to write things down,” she says. “I didn’t even really know what melanoma was at the time.” “I was on prednisone, which basically destroys your muscle mass—it just wipes you out. It causes you to gain weight, experience blurry vision,” she says.“If I was in the shower trying to wash my hair, I barely had the strength to hold my arms up,” she says.
Her doctor sent her for a MRI scan, but because she had a clear CT scan the month before, she almost didn’t go for it.Her cancer had returned. This time, it had metastasized to her brain. “The half marathon is my favorite distance, and I just had to accept I’m probably not going to get the PR I want,” she says. “I just want to finish the race.”
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