The picture I’ve attached is to give a visual on why this topic is so important to me. The picture is of my younger brother who battled a very rare form of pediatric cancer at the age of 11. The hardest part of my life so far has been the year and a half he was going through treatment; not only because of the physical toll the treatment takes on the patient’s body and what you see them go through each and every day, but the emotional toll it takes on the patient, but also the family and their support system.
This picture is of my younger brother jake during physical therapy in between treatments at the hospital. In this picture he is also almost at his lowest weight of 64 lbs at the age of 11, also wearing a cast that he had to have switched every week for 5 months to try and correct his walking because one of the biggest physical sideaffects is that his tumor engolfed his sciatic nerve and he will never be able to walk normal again. This also had an emotional toll on him becuse he was a very athletic kid who was told he could never do sports again and he would be limited to everyday activities that normal kids his age were goign to be able to do.
