A Georgetown father and cancer patient was grateful that he was able to see his son’s last high school football game, KVUE reported.
“I just thank God that I’m here tonight to be able to watch him play this senior game,” David Ross, who is battling both prostate and kidney cancer, told the station.
His son, Devin Ross, is a star running back for Georgetown who scored a touchdown in the third quarter of the playoff game against Fort Bend Hightower, the story said.
David Ross only missed two of his son’s high school games in four years at Georgetown.
He was diagnosed with cancer in 2016.
“We didn’t really talk about it then because we were in a very early stage, and it wasn’t something that was really traumatic at the time in terms of being at a Stage IV-level cancer,” David Ross told the station. “I was a 280-pound guy, now I’m down to 180 pounds.”
Devin dedicated the season to his father, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
“My dad always tells my brother (Blake) and I to not let (his condition) hold us back,” Ross told the newspaper. “He’s always been the one to teach us what to do. We need to make the right choices.”
At the same time, David’s mother and Devin’s grandmother, Ella Johnson, is fighting brain cancer, the story said.
“Unfortunately, we live in a broken world, and with as many kids as we have, there is always someone struggling with something,” Georgetown coach Chuck Griffin told the American-Statesman. “As coaches, we are always here to support, and we try to help their time in and around their sport to be an escape and a place of normalcy and consistency when they are going through these things.”
