Brave mum and singer Jesse J, 37, has been fighting an ongoing breast cancer battle – and was admitted to hospital again following an infection, she speaks about life’s ‘highs and lows’ and how we just have to ‘keep living in all of it’
Jessie J has been taken back to hospital following a mastectomy as her fight against breast cancer continues. The singer needed surgery again for an infection after fluid on her lungs took hold.
The 37-year-old has been recovering from mastectomy surgery which took place in June. The star, who is also a busy mum, is determined to carry on parenting and making new music, despite the health challenges she’s facing.
The Price Tag songstress and doting mum to two-year-old-son Sky revealed last Friday that she’ll be heading back in for surgery. Jessie shared a health update in a social media post on Instagram, writing ‘another surgery needed this year. I can do it’.
Last Sunday, in an Instagram Stories post, Jessie shared that she was back in hospital detailing the infection being the cause. From her hospital bed, Jessie shared a selfie and explained the ‘most mentally challenging time’ she’d been through with a photo of an IV cannula in her hand.
In the post, she shared: “How I spent the last 24 hours. 6 weeks post surgery and I was back in the same ward I was after my surgery. Not expected or planned.”
“I had and still have symptoms that pointed towards a blood clot on the lung. It is not a blood clot thank god.
“They ran a lot of tests, which ended up showing I have an infection (still trying to figure out what) and a little fluid on my lungs.
“Finding it hard to breathe in, but I discharged myself last night (I hate being in hospital) and will continue the investigation as an outpatient.”
Jessie shared another health update on Monday, just after being rushed back to hospital with fluid on her lungs. At the time, she shared this on Instagram that she ‘finally got a diagnosis’ of what’s been going on.
“Lots of people have been asking, apparently it’s called… Dramatic?”, she wrote, “I think that’s the spelling. My symptoms are the same and no idea what’s wrong yet. But my sarcasm and sense of humour are holding on.”
The popular star also filmed a video selfie and said that at times she felt like she was ‘hanging on by a thread’.
In the video, she added: “Two or three days ago when I woke up I couldn’t breathe. I still have pain in my chest when I breathe, but it’s not as bad.”
Jessie did also say she had ‘very few other symptoms’, telling followers that she was feeling ‘a lot stronger’ and was resting, she discussed her immune system with fans and fears that it ‘was low’.
She also shared being ‘very grateful for my little gang’ thanking her ‘hero mum’ and other family and friends who have helped around the home and with two-year-old Sky.
Jessie has also told her followers that she is not yet free of cancer, but is praying for good health news. However, she confirmed to fans that unfortunately, at the moment, it had not ‘all gone’, but the singer and brave mum is determined to continue with normal life as much as is possible.
In a separate post, Jessie added: “Raising a toddler. I can do it. Releasing new music. I can do it.
“It will look different to what I had planned but that’s life, things change and either we panic and get mad that it isn’t what it was going to be, or we adapt.
“I’m just flowing with life and giving the best I can. Instead of stopping and disappearing and waiting for the timing to be perfect to release music again.
“It’s never the perfect time. Because grown up life is layered and has highs and lows and we just have to keep living in all of it. So here I am. Living.
“And I just want you to have the music. Deal?”
