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rrrADAM
Feb 22, 2008, 7:53 PM
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My hero, Diego Fuentes…
This is my hero, Diego… He’s my son Justice’s best friend, and he’s a gregarious and articulate 4 year old boy with a rare form of cancer, Localized Stage 3 Spindle Cell Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma.
Diego is so brave that he has endured numerous MRIs requiring him to remain motionless for extended periods of time, a round of radiation and chemo therapy lasting months and requiring him to have a feeding tube, be isolated from his friends due to a severely weakened immune system from the radiation and chemo, extensive surgery to remove the cancer and reconstruct the muscles and nerves in the affected area (his wrist) with tissue and nerves harvested from both legs, only to still find cancer in the margins, and have to do it all over again. This has lasted almost 2 years !!! [written in Feb, 2008]
Why is he my hero ??? Because I often bitch and complain about having to endure much less, and will even quit at times because I am so impatient that I just can’t wait it out. Many times I have left items at the checkout line and walked out of the store due to my self-centered impatience. He has no choice, he just does it, he still smiles, and more importantly… He doesn’t quit !!!
This is a pic of him at the annual Jonathan Jacques Children's Cancer Center Torch Run 2007, held in Long Beach:
He was initially having trouble carrying the torch, as this was after his surgery, and his wrist was notably weakened by it… His mom, Michelle, asked him to let her help him, and he said, “No Mom! I can do it myself!”, clutched the torch tighter and picked up his step so much that all of us behind him had to quicken our pace just to keep up. He doesn’t quit !!!
Here he is at my son’s 3rd birthday party about a year ago, just weeks after the major surgery:
He just will not quit, and will try to do everything the other kids do !!!
Once again… He just doesn’t quit !!!
Here he is at his 4th birthday, just months ago, with the end to this battle in sight:
Continued in the next reply...
(This post was edited by rrrADAM on Aug 19, 2009, 5:50 PM)
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