The Journey Of Ayoung Lifetime

Damon Billeck, 11, is a courageous young man who, as his father Brian says, “has taken cancer and turned it to his benefit and to the benefit of others.” Damon was first diagnosed with osteosarcoma in early 2014, after his parents decided to have doctors look at a lingering pain in his arm. A doctor at a medical clinic referred their son for X-rays, which showed Damon was suffering from a bone cancer, which had already spread down his left arm. The biopsy had determined the presence of the cancer, and the (body scan) would determine if the cancer had spread outside of his upper left arm, where Lisa said doctors found the tumor — “one of the biggest they'd ever seen in a 9-year-old.” Damon, however, maintained high spirits through all of the doctor appointments, chemo treatments and hospital stays. First one doctor, then another, weighed in -- amputation would be best. During the whole diagnosis and initial treatment, Damon continued listening to hip-hop artist Pharrell Williams’ “Happy,” which was a No.