Seth had just started band camp in August and he had to carry a huge tuba. He kept complaining that his shoulder was hurting. I took him to his pediatrician and they said nothing was wrong. Then in October he got hit with a football and again back to the doctor and said it was sprained.
We let it ride out and then the week of Thanksgiving he fell on it skateboarding and it got worse. He slept the entire time, was in constant pain and was begging to do an x-ray. I finally got him another appointment and finally the doctor ordered an x-ray.
Mother instinct told me to hang around since we lived out of town. I got a call 30 mins later for us to come back in and he needed to talk to us. We then came back in and they rushed us in to a private room and told us that he had a tumor. That he was having a MRI done that night and then tomorrow they set up a appointment with a doctor at Cook’s Children to see an oncologist. November 28, 2017 is when we found out he had cancer, bone cancer, Osteosarcoma.
He has been handling his treatments fairly well. Luckily he hasn’t needed any infusions or platelets!
He’s had some obstacles that has come up. The cancer started in his arm but made its way to his lungs. The chemo isn’t working on his lungs and they removed four live cancer nodules out of his left lung and eight live nodules out of his right lung. They’ve also noticed swollen lymph nodes under his left arm now and it is too deep to biopsy right now. He’s supposed to resume chemo again soon. He’s still inpatient for his right lung surgery and hoping to be discharged soon.
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