James Sexton

Whoa.

Yeah.

And it doesn't cause necrosis when it touches tissue.

But the way Murray Brennan, who was one of, he did about four of her surgeries at Sloan Kettering.

Great surgeon, great guy.

The way he described it to us is he said, it's kind of like a cow standing in the middle of the road.

Like at first, everybody can drive around it.

But it gets bigger and bigger and bigger and it starts to take up the whole highway and now everything's crashing into it.

So that's what would happen.

So when I was about five or six years old, I remember my mom crying in the bathroom and I didn't know what was going on.

And my sister, who's six years older than me, told me that mom is sick and that she's gonna die.

And I didn't exactly know what that meant.

I had a gerbil named Cutie and he had died.

And I knew that that meant like, okay, you're not gonna see him anymore.

But I didn't really know what that like meant, the gravity of it.

And they told her and they told us that she had six months to live.

And then they went in to do the surgery and the tumor had encapsulated, meaning white blood cells had surrounded it and encapsulated it so it didn't grow very much.

It grew, but it hadn't impeded anything.

They took it out.

She was fine.