Sullivan’s story is far from over, but she considers it important to share so other runners can learn from it.
“I had read an article about it—it has the hottest temperatures, people’s shoes melt and they have to trade them out every few hours—it’s crazy, but I just knew I wanted to do it,” she says.But in August of that year, she noticed some pain in her left knee after a 6-mile weighted military run, when she was carrying a 35-pound pack.
“All they told was that we need to see you right away…I thought, okay, it must be a tear,” she says. “I’m going to need surgery.”“My doctor basically read me the radiology report—she didn’t have the words to tell me I had a gigantic tumor behind on my knee behind my patella,” she says. Once they opened her up, the doctors knew that the tumor was definitely cancer. By the time of the operation, it had grown to the size of a softball, causing her leg to swell up so much she couldn’t even bend her leg.“Everybody had told me to not even consider amputation earlier in the diagnosis process, but I’m glad I didn’t listen,” she says. “It would have been a lot harder—I was partially prepared.
But she worked hard in physical therapy and received a prosthetic. She was back to being mobile, but with limitations—because of how high up the amputation on her leg was, it made for an uncomfortable fitting prosthetic, and weakened leg muscles prevented her from being able to run.
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