Cancerwise

The pelvis is a set of bones in the lower torso that connects the spine to the legs. It starts out connected by cartilage when we’re young but fuses together at maturity. As a structure, it serves three main functions: 

Protecting the organs inside the pelvic cavity  Serving as an anchor point for the muscles controlling the lower body  Providing an axis for weight distribution of the upper body  

Sometimes...

At age 21, most people are still discovering who they are. But I was being treated at MD Anderson for osteochondroma-associated de-differentiated chondrosarcoma. That’s a rare type of bone cancer originating in the cartilage. It’s usually found in much older men.

I’d never heard of MD Anderson before my diagnosis in 2015. But one of my mom’s friends in the Rio Grande Valley insisted that we go there. 

I am eternally...