03/30/2026
4 years ago today started just like any other week day of school, work, dinner and kids playing. Ending our night at the Urgent Care for an upset tummy and sore shoulder. A CT Scan revealed an 11cm tumor on Gabriel’s Liver that had ruptured causing internal bleeding.
This night 4 years ago, our lives changed forever in the blink of an eye. During the 22 minute flight on Air Medical to Galveston, Gabriel went into Hemorrhagic Shock. He lost 3 times the amount of blood his body is suppose have, filling up his abdomen. He received Several blood transfusions while in flight to keep him alive. After arrival he was rushed into Emergency Surgery. After a 5hr long surgery, 18 blood transfusions to control and try to stop the bleeding, they were able to remove a majority of the ruptured tumor and a portion of his liver. They kept him cut open for 2 days before going back in on day two for another surgery that lasted 4 hours. They determined a large portion of the tumor still remained and wasn’t worth the risk of trying to resect it without the loss of life.
That Morning we were told our son has Liver Cancer. There is nothing in the world that can prepare you for the news that your child has cancer. The fact your child has cancer, a mix of emotions takes over your mind and body of guilt, anger, denial, fear and uncertainty. This news is one of the worst situations you can be faced with as a Parent. It affects the whole family on every level, everything you know and understand is gone.
As parents we hope you never have to sit in front of a doctor and hear your child has been diagnosed with cancer. We hope you never have to fight for their life to exist, and live in fear that they won’t.
His brother and sister have mixed emotions of fear, guilt, anxiety, anger, jealousy, sadness, resentment, loneliness. They don’t fully understand the severity due to their ages. But know it flips our lives upside down and puts a new hardship and strain on our every day lives. They sense something isint right and don’t understand why their brother isint at home and is at the hospital and why they can’t be there with him. Or why he can’t go to school or play outside or why his hair falls out and is sick all the time. They are scared because when they went to bed he was there and when they woke up mom or dad and brother are gone because something happened in the middle of the night and we had to make an emergency trip to the hospital.
The emotional and stress it puts on him, his siblings and us as parents is not to be taken lightly. It drains you physically and mentally. What you think you know or understand your mind questions it. You feel disconnected and distant to people around you. Even though we are all affected by it and have all the love, support and prayers from everyone around us it’s the unknown and what if’s that drain you.
Just know if you ever feel that we aren’t appreciative for the amount of love, support, guidance, advice, prayers, encouragement. We are truly humbled and Forever Grateful and have faith and are prepared to Keep Fighting.
As always please continue to say a Prayer for our son Gabriel and our Family as we continue to Fight the Goode Fight and Keep Gabriel’s Cancer Extinct.
On Tuesday the 1st we go back in for testing and labs and we will see what his cancer markers are doing. We are hopeful and praying they go down from what they’ve been the last two times we’ve gone.
Love, The Goode’s
