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"I need to speak with Monica and Chandler." The doctor said as he went into Erica's room. They followed the doctor to a different room.
"We have the lab results. Erica had 2 nephroblastomas on her kidney called Wilm's tumors. They were cancerous with favorable histology. Since the histology is favorable it's easier to treat. The spot on her lung was cancerous as well. Which means that the cancer is stage 4 and is spreading. She needs chemotherapy and radiation in both her abdomen and lungs. This is different than other cancers as it responds to treatment pretty well. She will need another surgery to put the port in which will be how she'll receive the medicine. Hopefully, that will be the last operation necessary. Do you have any questions?"
"H-how did this happen?" Chandler asked while hugging Monica who was crying into his shirt.
"It probably started when she was in her mother's womb. I think it'd be best if we run some tests on Jack just to check. There are some studies out there that suggest it is genetic so I would like to make sure he doesn't have it too, because as I said earlier, a lot of times these things don't show symptoms until later on." The doctor explained.
"O-okay. I'll have him brought in." Chandler told the Doctor.
"Okay, you can set up an appointment for an ultrasound and blood/urine tests at the front desk. Do you guys have any more questions?"
"N-no." Chandler said. He seemed to be in another world. He stared off into the distance.
"Okay. I'm so sorry that you guys are going through this." The doctor said as he left the room.
As soon as the doctor left the room Chandler got up. "I-I need to do something. I-I'll be right back."
"O-okay..." Monica said as she put her head in her hands and sobbed.
Chandler went outside and let it all out. He screamed and cried for about twenty minutes until Ross showed up. By the time Ross got there he was sitting against the wall crying. Ross sat down beside him and hugged him. "Monica called me... She-she'll be okay. She's strong. She's a fighter."
"No Ross. My daughter has cancer. And apparently she had this cancer her whole life and I never noticed. I'm a horrible father. And evidently there's a chance my son might have cancer. I can't lose them. I can't." Chandler said while bawling.
"Remember that anatomy class I took in college? I wrote a paper on this kind of cancer. You couldn't have known. So many kids don't show symptoms until they get to this point. You're not a horrible father. At all. And you won't lose them. You don't even know if there's anything wrong with Jack yet. And the survival rate are very high for this kind of cancer. Erica will be fine." Ross explained trying to comfort him. Truth is, he had no clue what the survival rate was for it when it had gotten this far. But he wasn't about to tell Chandler that.
Chandler just nodded. "I don't know what I'd do if I lost her. I just don't see how the little girl lying in that hospital bed fighting for her life could be the same little girl who was chasing me around the house playing tag just a couple days ago. I just don't understand how she got so sick so quickly... I mean... Logically I understand, but still... She was just a normal 7-year-old a few days ago."
"I know... A lot can change very quickly..." Ross said.
After a few minutes and after Chandler had calmed down they went inside and found Monica sitting beside Erica talking to her. Erica could tell that Chandler had been crying.
"I'll be okay daddy. They're gonna give me medicine to make me better." Erica told him.
"I know honey." Chandler said as he walked over to her and hugged her.