couldn t bend over and tie his shoes anymore, it was that bad. finally, the physical therapist said it was not working. you need an mri. that is when doctors discovered a tumor in his left hip. his mysterious pain was caused by a rare form of bone cancer. a small amount of adults are diagnosed in the united states with this disease. despite the shattering diagnosis and the sickening rounds of chemotherapy, zach remained hopeful. he was determined he was going to do the things he wanted to do, despite his cancer. we had a lot of hope. there were a lot of treatments that could have worked. but tragically for zach, they didn t. when we went on our trip to europe, i noticed that he was limping. we got home from europe. they did a p.e.t. scan and we found out that his pelvis was involved. cancer was everywhere.
did a pet scan and we found that his pelvis was the whole left side of his pelvis was involved, cancer was everywhere. doctors delivered the news he had just months to live. we had to talk through that. how do you do this? how do you live while you re dying? zach turned to his guitar for answers. last fall, laura was tidying up the house when she saw a piece of paper that struck a chord. i said did you write this? he said, yeah, i did. i said do you have music for it? is this his phone? this is his phone. he pulled his phone out of his pocket and i recorded it. do you want to listen so it in i m like, yeah, of course i do.
limping. we got home from europe and they did a pet scan and we found that his pelvis was the whole left side of his pelvis was involved, cancer was everywhere. doctors delivered the news. he would have just months to live. so, we had to talk through that. like, how do you do this? how do you live while you re dying? zach turned to his guitar for answers. last fall, laura was tidying up the house when she came across a piece of paper that struck a chord. it said clouds on top. he walked in the door, i said, did you write this? he said, yeah, i did. do you have music for it? is this his phone? this is his phone, yeah. he pulled his phone out of his pocket. he said, i recorded it.
increasing and he said chemo was in my future and i wasn t sure if it was going to be in december or january. i tried to get some answers from him to commit to when exactly. it s usually after a test, a p.e.t. scan. but i m just not sure if i will have the instruments, you know, that with him he actually said i wouldn t have him as a doctor possibly after the new year. and how does that make you feel, maria? it was very upsetting because i ve had this doctor for four years and i trust him. yeah. and maria, has anyone reached out to help you since we last spoke? honestly, not until friday did i get a phone call from a senator s office. they said i would talk to someone about insurance. it hasn t happened and i m not sure when it will. actually, nothing maria, you know, when we
injection to look for troubles but now they found another application? that s right. a pet scan or a pet c.t. scan which is the imaging modality that s been used has been used in cancer and bone imaging. now we can actually pinpoint areas in heart arteries that are apt to rupture and cause heart attacks. jon: and it s not actually the artery that would rupture. it s the clump of plaque that gets attached to the side wall of ab artery. i think we have an animation of how it works or what it looks like. it s the plaque that ruptures and that can clog up the entire artery. that s right. understand this teening technique, we need to understand cholesterol. cholesterol deposits themselves in the heart artery. they form a plaque and then the plaque becomes enflamed with calcium.