Jen S. is battling metastatic breast cancer. But you'd never guess it from meeting this bright-eyed, can-do, single mom. Here's how she keeps her strength and spirit alive.
By Maria Lissandrello
When Urbana-Champaign, IL, mom Jen Smith, 35, took her son, Corbin, to his first day of kindergarten last Aug. 24, she jumped for joy. Not because she was happy to have her kid out from under foot, but because she never thought she'd live to see the day—literally.
When Corbin was 9 months old, what she thought was a clogged milk duct turned out to be breast cancer. One year, one lumpectomy, six months of chemo and six weeks of daily radiation later, the cancer hadn't backed down. Instead, it was back. In her ribs. In her scapula. In her spine. It was now Stage IV. Incurable. And Jen was just 31.
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