Ewing’s sarcoma is a type of childhood cancer that is found in children’s around the age of 10 years old. The cancer is the second most common bone cancer and initiates in the large bones of the body. In the eyes of Lucy having cancer at her young age made her feel important. “…Its promise of rare and dangerous implications made me feel important…” (Grealy, Page 44) Lucy at this stage n her life has no idea of the implications involved in having cancer. Over the course of her life she had numerous surgeries. Her first surgery an emergency surgery Lucy had to get the lump removed which was growing with time. All the surgeries entailed not having part right side of her jaw which, was removed due to the cancer. As a treatment to cancer Lucy had
