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Over the past six years, Brett Yancey, 47, spent time in and out of hospitals receiving treatment for stage 4 esophageal cancer. Sadly, that means the dad of three needed to skip some of his daughters’ sporting events, dances and other milestones. But when his youngest daughter, Sara Kate, 17, was nominated for homecoming queen and needed her dad to escort her during the football game, he felt determined. “We missed a lot. We’ve missed a lot of ballgames.
“We had noticed some left leg paralysis and some changes in his behavior,” Carrie Yancey explains. “We knew something was going on in the brain.” The family needed to wait for an MRI to understand what was happening. But Brett Yancey did not want that to stop him from being there for Sara Kate. “We weren’t sure that he would be able to walk across the field,” Carrie Yancey says. “We tried every way to get him to take a golf cart. We had mentioned, ‘Why don’t you stand on sidelines ..
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