“We’re going to start at the very beginning. March 2006.
I want you to tell me when you first thought something was amiss with your leg.”
(groan) “Well, I was skateboarding with my friend Alex, and we were trying to ollie the curb which basically means, ‘jump’, (chuckles) while keeping your feet on the board. I fell and it was excruciating. There was this pretty noticeable lump under my left knee…
I knew it wasn’t normal to hurt that much from such a small impact,
so I knew something was wrong.”
“Do you remember having a strange feeling that this was not a muscle tear?”
“I was hoping it was a medical mystery and I would have a disease named after me.”
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These are the words caught on tape one year after Brooks Paul was diagnosed with a malignant bone tumor in his left leg - osteosarcoma. (Terry Fox, Edward Kennedy, Jr.) Never in my wildest dreams did I think that my happy, healthy, piano playing kid would be diagnosed with cancer. And lose a leg to it? Unheard of!
Click here for Oct07 LA Times Article written by his mom Pamela Welky Paul
Chemo ran for forty weeks, two weeks a month in the hospital. The strain on his newly divorced parents was immeasurable, but the family hung in there.
Click here for Nov07 LA Times Article written by his mom Pamela Welky Paul
In June of 2008, two small tumors were removed from his lungs and four months later, a small tumor was found at the base of his skull and another on his spine.
Chemo and radiation resumes…
Scoring a 2020 on his SAT, he now plays six different musical instruments
and wants to go to medical school.
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To his friends, however, Brooks remains 'just one of the guys’. BROOKSAPALOOZA on March 8, 2009 was a huge success. We thank Nick and all the boys for being there for their friend Brooks. We are very honored to have been part of this event.
So much money was raised, the boys
had to shave their heads
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We will never give up.
