James Sexton

I feel the most fulfilled when I'm of service.

Whether it was as a hospice volunteer.

How old were you when you were doing that?

18.

Interesting.

I had just gotten out of... So there's a little context there.

When I was about...

six years old, maybe five years old, my mom was first diagnosed with leomyosarcoma, which is a soft tissue sarcoma.

It's very rare.

It's a cancer that does not typically become metastatic in any way, but it grows very rapidly.

So the first time that she was diagnosed with it, when they found it, it was the size of a dime.

And when they took it out three weeks later, it was the size of a grapefruit.

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.