New Brunswick Firefighter Jeff Howard, who was diagnosed with Lymphoma in May of 2021, has returned to work after a successful treatment.
Nothing could prepare Howard when doctors told him he had cancer, including his service with the fire department and the National Guard in Iraq.
“I don’t recall him saying anything else after that,” Howard said. “Everything went to a blur for me because the first thing I thought of was death. I didn’t hear anything else,” Howard told Tap Into New Brunswick.
After almost a year and a half since Howard received multiple rounds of chemotherapy, his cancer is gone.
Howard’s ordeal started in 2020 when he was diagnosed with gastritis after experiencing severe stomach pain.
After multiple scans and imaging, in May 2021, a doctor noticed something on his lung and did a biopsy and discovered lymphoma.
With his ordeal over, Howard is healthy and happy to be back to work. “I missed just being on the fire truck and going to calls and helping people,” Howard told Tap Into New Brunswick.
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