In this episode of From Carpools to Chemo, host Marisa Peters sits down with JJ Singleton, a 27-year-old former college football player whose life took a devastating turn when a throbbing in his abdomen turned out to be colorectal cancer. Now 10 years into his journey, JJ has endured 10 surgeries, 4 failed chemo cocktails, 450 days without food or water, and is approaching his 173rd round of treatment. And he's still standing, unfiltered, unpolished, and more real than ever.

JJ takes us back to Memorial Day 2015, when he first felt the pain. As a former athlete, he did what athletes do: he pushed through. He ignored the blood in his stool, ignored the weight loss, which he mistook for fitness progress, and kept training for a CrossFit competition. But by the time his mom convinced him to see a doctor, the tumor was ...