Jackie’s lung cancer story – Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
By Julia Pugachevsky
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- Jackie Head is an ice climber who’s completed high-altitude treks in Iceland & France.
- She had zero symptoms of lung cancer but caught it early, thanks to a free scan.
- She’s now cancer-free after surgery and believes everyone should get screenings.
Jackie Head’s lung power comes in handy considering her active lifestyle. The 57-year-old lives for ice climbing, free-diving, and polar training, which involves nine hours of skiing a day and pulling a 66-pound sledge.
“I’ve always said I’ve got very strong legs and I’ve got very strong lungs,” Head, who’s summited Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Western Europe, and gone on Icelandic expeditions, told Insider.
It was her penchant for climbing in high altitudes —
and her lack of any symptoms — that made her lung cancer diagnosis such a shock.
At age 56, Head received a complimentary screening because her area, Essex, was targeted by the UK’s National Health System as part of a new initiative to detect lung cancer earlier. She remembered wishing the staff a happy Christmas and walking away “assuming that there’s definitely nothing wrong with me.”
But her CT scan showed two nodules on her right lung, and a later biopsy revealed that she had stage 1a, or early stage, lung cancer.
Head only went to the screening because lung cancer runs in her family
Originally, Head had planned to be away at the time of the screening — she was signed up to cross the Northern Patagonia ice cap with a team. Due to financial reasons, some members dropped out and the trip was canceled.
Because both of Head’s parents had lung cancer, she decided she might as well get a screening.
After the initial scan, she had a biopsy performed, which confirmed that the 26-millimeter nodule on her lower lobe was cancerous.
Her adventurous lifestyle helped her emotionally deal with her diagnosis
When Head was diagnosed in January 2023, she was initially “really angry,” considering her commitment to fitness and how hard she worked at safeguarding her health.
She said the doctors wanted to schedule the surgery right away, but she decided to postpone for a 10-day trip to an arctic ice festival in February.
The biopsy and surgery both worried Head, who knew complications could include a collapsed lung that could temporarily inhibit her from doing all her favorite outdoor activities.
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She said ice climbers “generally live like there’s no tomorrow:
You face fear a lot of times because it’s very dangerous.”
Plus, she realized the diagnosis “highlighted some things in life you do not have control of,” and that the only thing she had power over was how she took the news.
When she returned from her trip, Head went right to the hospital to get the surgery.
She had part of her lung removed and is now cancer-free
In March, Head had a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) to remove the lower right lobe of her lung, which she said will reduce her oxygen intake — though so far it hasn’t impacted her work outs.
Still, she felt optimistic: In her lung function tests before the surgery, she learned she had “superhuman” lungs according to a doctor. Since the surgery, she said her right side still feels “very tight and odd” but that she’s gotten used to it.
Now cancer-free, Head already has her next trip planned: The Snowman Trek in Bhutan,
a 28-day journey considered to be the most challenging traverse in the Himalayas.
plans to get them every six months to be safe. #Mind Over Matter.
She hopes people will consider getting more frequent screenings.
Lung cancer is the deadliest form of cancer in the UK and US, but it’s also more common in older men and smokers. Because the early stages commonly show no symptoms, many people might not realize they have lung cancer until later, when treatment is much more difficult.
“I believe we need a new face for lung cancer,” Head said. “Then people might actually turn their head and think ‘Maybe I should start having a body scan every two years.'” JACKIE HEAD 🏴 (@jackiehead1) • Instagram photos and videos
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Woman shares theory that we never really die and it’s freaking people out
Story by Breanna Robinson
People on TikTok are freaking out after one woman suggested that we might not ever truly pass on – and that the world could have ended many times before without our knowledge.
Joli Moli, who goes by @joli.artist on the platform, is scaring people with a video she posted that claims that we may never really die, but instead, our consciousness goes into an alternate reality.
In that alternate reality, we exist without the memories of the world we lived in prior, except for some details that don’t seem right.
Moli noted that if the theory of quantum immortality – which suggests that people never really die – is accurate, then humanity might have been ended many times by apocalyptic events similar to the asteroids “taking out the dinosaurs” 65 million years ago.
We would essentially have no recollection because our consciousness would endure it, and we’d awake in a parallel world where that hasn’t occurred.
And because we have a limited word count here, here’s a 13-minute explanation of quantum immortality that’s worth a watch: Sean Carroll Explains Quantum Immortality – YouTube
“If the quantum immortality theory is correct, you’re just going to wake up in a parallel universe with no memory of the fact that you just survived an apocalyptic event,” Moli said in the video.
She also detailed that our only sort of inkling into understanding that there might be a parallel world would be through the “new Mandela effects,” a phenomenon where people remember major events differently from how history claims it went.
People in the comments found this discourse quite frightening and disturbing, as it may lean towards understanding that “we can’t escape.”
“The thought of never being able to actually die is extremely depressing, and it’s giving me a headache,” someone wrote.
”Bruh, I’m just done with this anxiety. My body [is] emotionally [and] physically TIREDDD,” another added.
A third commenter who is not really into conspiracies also suggested that they are “freaking out” about this idea.
“Ok, I’m actually kind of freaking out right now because I’m not the conspiracy typa guy, but you’re eerily making sense,” they said.
Others in the comments saw the positives of eternal life, with one saying that it brings them great comfort because they’ve lost people to “tragic deaths.”
And on the other hand, people also shared experiences of “dreams” that they’ve had about the “world ending,” which made them believe in this theory even more.
The Mandela effect is named after Nelson Mandela, the former South African president and activist for civil rights during Apartheid.
After his passing in 2013, many people believed that he had passed away in prison in the 1980s and even had “clear” memories of his funeral on the news.
With that, if you’ve ever awoken to find that things weren’t exactly as you remember them, maybe it means that you died in another universe and woke up in this one.
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