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Kathryn's cancer story started with a fall in November. We were outside playing and she tripped over her feet, cried for a few minutes, then continued playing. When we went inside, I took off her mitten and noticed a bump. She said it didn't hurt and could move it just fine, and the doctor said it was probably a hairline fracture. We taped it up for a few weeks and thought that was that.
After a few weeks, the bump had not gone away and the doctor thought it might be just a bony callous that would eventually go away. After going into the doctor to show them the bump, they referred us to a pediatric hand specialist. We were told that it most likely a venous malformation and could try and shrink it with wrap. After some weeks the bump looked to actually be bigger, so we opted to remove it since it had started to become an annoyance to Kathryn. The surgery went just fine and the doctor said that the mass looked like a regular VM and we would follow up in a few weeks. We were told the chances of this being cancer were microscopic.
On Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, we got the call in the morning that the pathology did not look right and we needed to come in to talk later in the afternoon. Those 5 hours of waiting were spent trying to figure out any reason other than cancer they would call us in to talk when we had an appointment in 3 days. The surgeon told us that it was a Ewing's Sarcoma.
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