One appointment changed my life forever... 😪

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00:00Never in my life did I think, after being an athlete, I'd be in a hospital bed, unable to

00:04use my legs. The one thing that kind of defined me, I just want to walk again. I haven't walked

00:10in over three months. It's so easy to take for granted, to have an healthy body, waking up with

00:16legs that work, a body that moves. I think that's a blessing most people don't realize that they

00:24have until it's gone. After a devastating diagnosis, he faced a long battle. This is what my last three

00:33weeks have looked like in the hospital. I've been quiet, not because I'm okay, but some days I just

00:38feel like I have nothing left inside me. This chemotherapy I'm on, it's the strongest and most

00:44toxic treatment that they could possibly give. One week I started feeling a bit better, and out of

00:51nowhere, my body just suddenly collapsed, felt dizzy, blacked out. Unfortunately, after months

00:58of intensive chemotherapy, they were forced to resort to something drastic. So the doctors did

01:04some tests, and it turns out, just because I've been having really low counts, red cells, I think,

01:11now I've needed constant transfusions just to stay conscious. And honestly, some days I don't feel like

01:17waking up. I don't feel like facing the world. But the hard truth is that this is my reality now.

01:24There's no going back. And I realize that the only way through this is to move forward. So I'll keep

01:30going. Even if it's slow, even if it's messy, even if all I could do today is breathe, we keep moving

01:39forward. He was about to face an impossible decision. Over the last three months, the hope was to save my

01:45leg. But that was only possible if the tumor stopped growing. That's what was supposed to be

01:51chemo's job. But it didn't. And it kept getting bigger. And after consulting one of the best bone

01:58doctors in the region, and a second opinion from one of the top specialists in New York, I was left

02:05with only two choices. Option one, implant a full metal prosthesis in my entire leg and knee and have

02:14to walk with a limp for the entire rest of my life. Or option two, amputate more than half of my leg

02:23and carry on life with the prosthetic leg. So I sit here faced with the dreaded A word that nobody wants

02:31to hear. It's not what I wanted. But it's the best shot I have now at staying alive, eating this

02:37and being able to live my life in less than 24 hours. My life changes forever. The surgery was a

02:45success, but his journey is far from over. It's been 13 days since the surgeon amputated more than half

02:52of my leg. Operation was a success, but nothing really compares you for waking up and seeing that

02:58half of your leg is gone. And even though I do what I was signing up for, that moment was shocking.