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01-17-2010, 02:17 PM
PROVO, Utah -- Chanell Rose couldn't help but be fidgety as she waited for her parents to emerge from Dr. Courtney Scaife's office on Friday.
Sitting in a waiting room at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City, under the shadow of the awe-inspiring Wasatch Mountains, the anxiety had nearly paralyzed her, just two months before she is due to give birth to her third child.
Finally, after an agonizingly long 30-minute meeting with Scaife, Dave and Cheryl Rose walked out of the oncologist's office with their arms around each other. Cheryl clutched the black-and-white MRI photos of Dave's liver, pancreas and the rest of his abdomen -- minus the surgically removed spleen, which had been taken over by a tumor this summer.
No words were spoken for a moment, only smiles. And then spontaneous tears.
Dave Rose had a clear cancer scan, which means the BYU men's basketball coach is indeed one of five in a million, the insurmountable odds he was given after he received the diagnosis in June of a rare pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor that nearly killed him.
It also means Rose will be able to coach the Cougars this season.
"I just want him to be healthy enough to do what he wants to do, because I don't know if he'd be the same if he wasn't able to coach," said the 28-year-old Chanell, who played on the BYU women's basketball team.
"They're throwing out numbers where someone with this cancer can live 10 to 20 years. You just never know. I want him to get Taylor [her 14-year-old sister] through high school and graduation and be there for the grandkids and all that stuff."
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/st...id=4490438
Sitting in a waiting room at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City, under the shadow of the awe-inspiring Wasatch Mountains, the anxiety had nearly paralyzed her, just two months before she is due to give birth to her third child.
Finally, after an agonizingly long 30-minute meeting with Scaife, Dave and Cheryl Rose walked out of the oncologist's office with their arms around each other. Cheryl clutched the black-and-white MRI photos of Dave's liver, pancreas and the rest of his abdomen -- minus the surgically removed spleen, which had been taken over by a tumor this summer.
No words were spoken for a moment, only smiles. And then spontaneous tears.
Dave Rose had a clear cancer scan, which means the BYU men's basketball coach is indeed one of five in a million, the insurmountable odds he was given after he received the diagnosis in June of a rare pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor that nearly killed him.
It also means Rose will be able to coach the Cougars this season.
"I just want him to be healthy enough to do what he wants to do, because I don't know if he'd be the same if he wasn't able to coach," said the 28-year-old Chanell, who played on the BYU women's basketball team.
"They're throwing out numbers where someone with this cancer can live 10 to 20 years. You just never know. I want him to get Taylor [her 14-year-old sister] through high school and graduation and be there for the grandkids and all that stuff."
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/st...id=4490438
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01-17-2010, 02:18 PM
As having lost an aunt and grandfather to cancer. My prayers are with this family as they move forward.
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