LiveStrong

Our human Dad is a 6 year cancer survivor.
He had cancer in the soft tissues around the thigh and knee on his left leg.
He had a rare aggressive form called Sarcoma and it is a kind that doesn't respond to chemo.
He had radiation but it didn't take care of it.

He had a 10 hour surgery to remove the lump. They got it all, but it had begun to send out tentacles and had started to spread. His leg looks like a shark got it!

He had 10 more surgeries including cutting a hunk of thigh from his right leg to attach over the hole (the ultimate "cut & paste!" They took out a couple ligaments behind the knee and that was reconstructed with donor ones. A few months later an infection got into his knee and ate all the cartilage away so he was bone on bone. He got a titanium knee and a rod inserted 3" into the femur. Last year at exactly this time he had to have that replaced, somehow the rod broke.
The knee apparatus was replaced too, but because of the radiation the femur was weak so they put in a rod that goes up the entire length now.

He is doing fine! In fact he took this last week off and has played golf every day.
It is still sore all the time, worse when he does stuff like that, but he defines his own limitations, he doesn't let the limitations define him.

Live Strong Daddy!
Love, Scooby, Shaggy & Scout,
and Sasha & Toby the guinea pigs.