A Moment in Sarcoma from Todd
l Liposarcoma · Moments in SarcomaCastroville, Texas
Cancer was not something that I had personally dealt with in the past. In October of 2006, we found out that my father-in-law had cancer. This coming from a man who was just a little sick and never weak a day in his life. The transformation from full health to full-blown cancer was a real wake-up call for us as to the devastating effects of cancer. The problem we had was that no one could figure out what type of cancer he had.
It wasn’t until we conferred with MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston that we found out he had liposarcoma. It was a momentous realization that we really do not know enough about cancer and awareness must be raised. After a long fight with cancer, consisting of several surgeries, the cancer finally (and at that point, thankfully) took his life. The amount of pain that he had to endure was unfathomable and it woke me up to the real dangers of cancer and just how frail this form is. Though this is a very sad time in our lives, we now realize that more must be done to research a cure for this disease so that fewer and fewer families have to go through the pain of loss. As long as we live we will not forget him and his fight.
