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Stopped in his tracks by a routine blood test. >> she says, your alkaline phosphotates number is high. she explains that its a test that vaguely suggests somethings wrong with your liver or bones. another test, my liver is cleared. she says on what seems like a whim, why dont you get a full-body bone scan. >> reporter: that test revealed a growth on his left femur, the thigh bone. but it was also the bone he broke while riding his treasured bike when he was just 5 years old. his doctors were not...

Routine blood test. >> she says, youre alkaline number is high. she explains that its a test that vaguely suggests somethings wrong with your liver or bones. another test, my liver is cleared. she says on what seems like a whim, why dont you get a full-body bone scan. >> reporter: that test revealed a growth on his left femur, the thigh bone. but it was also the bone he broke while riding his treasured bike when he was just 5 years old. his doctors were not concerned. >> he was like, oh, you kno...

Way. i think most people do pull themselves together. do what it is that needs to be done. sometimes your thrown for a loop for a little while and then you start to reclaim. i think its that getting back on the right path. thats the hard part. you know, you cant let yourself go down the chasm. you have to really get yourself back on the right path. >> larry: was the worst when they first told you? mentally. >> mentally the worst was when -- when i very first heard. i just didnt know what to expe...

Themselves together. do what it is that needs to be done. sometimes your thrown for a loop for a little while and then you start to reclaim. i think its that getting back on the right path. thats the hard part. you know, you cant let yourself go down the chasm. you have to really get yourself back on the right path. >> larry: was the worst when they first told you? mentally. >> mentally the worst was when -- when i very first heard. i just didnt know what to expect. i didnt know whether the info...

Sometimes your thrown for a loop for a little while and then you start to reclaim. i think its that getting back on the right path. thats the hard part. you know, you cant let yourself go down the chasm. you have to really get yourself back on the right path. >> larry: was the worst when they first told you? mentally. >> mentally the worst was when -- when i very first heard. i just didnt know what to expect. i didnt know whether the information -- how bad the information i was getting was. i me...

The world. >> welcome. >> and walking in other peoples shoes. and now he was about to be stopped in his tracks by a routine blood test. >> she says, your number is high. and she explains that it is this test that vaguely suggests something wrong with the liver or the bones. another test, my liver is cleared. she says on what seems like a whim why dont you get a full-body bone scan? >> that test revealed a growth on the left femur, the thigh bone. but it was also the bone he broke riding his trea...