Jen Dunmoyer was diagnosed with Small Cell Cervical Cancer at age 34 in July of 2010. When her sister, Jessica, wanted to do something to help – find information about Jen’s illness or learn about research being conducted to save women like her sister suffering from the disease – she came up empty handed.
How does one carry on with life when it suddenly has a high probability of ending? How does cope with an illness that strikes fast, only whispering its presence after it’s already spread? How does one stay optimistic when the odds are stacked against beating it, when few doctors have encountered it, let alone successfully treated it? What does living in such a precarious state do to the loved ones of the patient?