Jason Mollring, a 52-year-old man from London with no prior health issues, blacked out one day, only to wake up covered in bruises and get diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
Mollring, an innovation consultant originally from Monterey, California, has always stuck with a healthy lifestyle. He has even completed 10 half-marathons! Last April, while he was working from home in Greenwich, London he blacked out. The next thing he remembers is waking up with pain, and finding bruises all over his body. “My left shoulder, back, arm, and jaw really hurt and when I went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror, I was all bruised as if somebody had been punching me” Mollring recalled.
Unaware of what had happened, he met friends that evening as usual, but after telling them about the incident, his partner urged him to seek medical attention.
The doctors ran tests and a CT scan. They asked him to stay, and after five days in the hospital, he was diagnosed with a low-grade brain tumour. He underwent surgery in August, during which he remained conscious while doctors removed 99% of the 2.6 cm tumor. However, biopsy results later confirmed that it wasn’t tumour, but glioblastoma, an aggressive and incurable cancer with a prognosis of 12 to 18 months.
“Before surgery, I thought I would just recover and it is a thing of the past but then it became something of my present and future. It is a death sentence,” he recalled.
Despite multiple seizures before and after surgery, he was determined to fight all the odds. After recovery, he continues to be active, going running. Though he had to go through intensive chemotherapy and radiotherapy, he has experienced minimal side effects.
“I have been super, super fortunate as I’ve never been sick or fatigued and my body has handled all of the treatment incredibly. We eat healthily, I try to get light exercise walking every day, I have a monthly therapist and I play guitar every day which I love,” he said.
His family and friends have been supportive throughout his recovery. They have also launched a fundraiser to meet the medical expenses of Mollring.
