James Ragan’s Christmas Gift: A Few Words From Friends
James Ragan’s Christmas Gift: A few words from friends – For Christmas 2011, Kate Bowman and Alex Maingot decided to give James Ragan this video. We got around 75 of his friends to say a few words on camera about James. Here are a few words about James: In June of 2006, shortly after his 13th birthday, James was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma in his left knee. He had to undergo several months of chemotherapy both intra-arterially directly to the tumor site and systemically. They then removed a large portion of his left leg (40% of his femur, his knee, and 20 of his tibia) and replaced it with metal implants. This was followed by several more months of chemotherapy. While this was a difficult trial for James, it was compounded by the fact that due to the surgery and implant, he could also no longer play tennis again and he was obsessed with tennis. Before his diagnosis, he was a highly ranked junior player and hoped to play division one tennis. Unfortunately, his problems would get worse. By the summer of 2007, he was in apparent remission. He had also been told that even though he couldn’t play tennis he could play golf. He had taken it up and was playing well enough to play Varsity Golf at Mary Carroll High School and qualified to play the Texas State Junior Championship. He was even elected President of his class in school. Things seemed to be going well, but in October of 2007, he learned that the bone cancer had metastasized to his lungs. This is the most common site of Osteosarcoma metastases and unfortunately there is no …
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