That shame held her back from getting help.
”He could tell it was more serious”
It wasn’t until they moved in together that David finally saw the bulge and confronted her.
“David asked me what was wrong with my foot. I replied that it was torn ligaments, but he could tell it wasn’t, that it was more serious,” Cheryl recalled.
He urged her to go back to the doctor. That decision may have saved her life.
The diagnosis changed everything
Her doctor quickly scheduled an MRI, X-ray, and biopsies. The results were devastating.
The lump was cancer — a sarcoma. And it was aggressive.
Her surgeon delivered the grim news: To stop the cancer from spreading, they needed to amputate Cheryl’s lower leg as soon as possible.
“I was hysterical. I was so stunned I couldn’t speak,” she said. “I felt like I had been punched in the face twice on one day.”
