ESSAY: “No one can promise me that running will prevent terrible things from recurring, but it makes me feel unstoppable,” writes Zaiyi Jiang.
The author running along the Charles River in Cambridge in June, 2022: “a day before I bid farewell to Boston.”
But it was a day of victory for me. It was the first day of recovery from my final round of treatment — 11 cycles of chemotherapy, during which I constantly battled nausea, fatigue, hair loss, numbness and tingling. That was the first run I truly struggled to finish, and my first attempt at becoming someone I never imagined: an athlete.
Just two months before I was diagnosed, I had come all the way from China with two large suitcases to begin my journey as a first-year graduate student at Harvard Kennedy School, imagining what my life would look like during the next two years and after graduation. By the time I was finally admitted to the hospital in Boston, I had been tortured by excruciating pain for months and lost nearly 20 pounds, one-fifth of my body weight.
Fast forward to a couple of months later. As I neared the end of my treatment — having completed nine rounds of chemo in Boston, and the final two after a move to Ann Arbor — I found myself miraculously improving. When I learned from my doctor that the most recent CT scan showed no signs of disease, I realized I had to engage in some new activity to help reduce the overwhelming stress that came with the diagnosis.
I finally managed to replace the painful memories of falling sick with the gentle breeze and the hopeful sunset.
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