The moment that my life turned upside down.

August 15, 2008 the moment my life turned upside down. But first let’s back up to July 2008, I was playing on the ground with my grandpas dog when she started to smell my ear and kind of scratch at it. My mom told me to put ice on it and it will just go away. Two weeks later I had noticed that that little bump that was behind my ear turned into a big bump that was the size of Heimlich (the Caterpillar from ‘A Bugs life’). Two doctors send me home with different medicines and different appointments for later times. Then finally after those doctors sent me home we wanted one more opinion. We saw a plastic surgeon who said “I have no idea what it is but it needs to come off,”. We took the mysterious bump off of my ear on a Tuesday and labs normally come back within two weeks but we got the results back in four days. That Friday the 15th of August the test results came back that the small bump that everyone was telling me was “a bug bite” was the worst thing we could had expected. Cancer. At any age the world cancer scares everyone, but when you are a child, cancer is something you never hear about in people your age. Within four days after knowing I had cancer, we were at Doernbercher Children’s Hospital in Portland Oregon knowing that I would have tests, surgeries and doctors appointments. For the next two weeks everything was based around me starting Chemotherapy for the next six months of my life.