The First Sign

It all started on July 30, 2006 on Tommy's 3rd birthday. While getting him dressed that morning, there on the bottom of his left foot was the this little bump on the rear outer edge of his foot. Hhhmmm...this was strage - no pain was related to it, Tommy had never mentioned so we went to the Dr for his annual check up and even she was dumbfound as to what it was. In fact, she thought maybe it was possibly a wart that was still under the surface. We were told to watch it, so we did and it grew so we went back to the Dr. It was then that Tommy was sent to a foot Dr who looked at it, thought no big deal of it and said to watch it and if it changed in color or size to come back -- he was never alarmed. So we watched for the next several months and it started to grow in size, so back to the Dr we go, he still seemed to have no worries. The Dr said if wanted to talke it out he'd have no promblem doing it but we could also leave it alone. No, at this time Tommy had started to tell us it was hurting him when he walked and we just wanted it out of him. On March 1, 2007 it was removed and all was GREAT...so we thought. We went to his post op and it by the 2nd check up they told us the tumor was a rare form of Infancy Tumor -- which are not cancer tumors. This type though is so rare, they were amazed to see it so they sent it off to Walter Reed in San Antonio Tx to be turned in to a case study. It was here that this tissue they removed that went in to some additoinal testing and then discovered he has Ewing Sarcoma Cancer. On April 10, at 9:15 AM PST, Kimberly got "THE" phone call no parent ever wants -- Dr. Jones was telling her it was cancer! How could this be? We had already gotten the results, this was a mistake, they were calling the wrong person, my Tommy was healthy, happy, hell he was at that very minute playing at daycare with his frinds -- this Dr. Jones called the wrong person. Uh, no! It didn't work out that way, they called the right person and Tommy does have Ewing Sarcoma Cancer. A VERY rare cancer -- so rare he shouldn't have it! Only 150 - 200 cases of Ewing Cancer are reported every year world wide, with the majority of the cases being white males between 10 - 20 years of age. For whatever reason, God has chosen Tommy to have it and now we must kill it out of him and he will have a long longevity life!!! He WILL!