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While a titanium prosthesis to replace the diseased thigh bone was painstakingly developed, bruce suffered through rounds of chemo to disrupt the tumor. for 4 1/2 months, pneumonia, ear infections, dozens of pounds lost, three hospitalizations. >> i could just feel my body sort of slipping away. >> reporter: even as bruce was fighting for his life, the counsel of dads rallied around the family. some with daily phone calls, others weekly visits. jeff shumlen had a different tactic, one postcard a day every single day for a year. >> reporter: that's a lot of postcards to see them all like this, ...

Routine blood test. >> she says, you're alkaline number is high. she explains that it's a test that vaguely suggests something's wrong with your liver or bones. another test, my liver is cleared. she says on what seems like a whim, why don't 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 know, looks like nothing. don't worry. it's not like you have cancer or something, she says to me. ...

From new york. he would be the general leading the fight against bruce's cancer. >> i hate cancer. and i know it's not going to show my patient any mercy, and i'm not going to show it any mercy. >> reporter: when you looked at his films and after you examined him, did you already pretty much know what you were going to do when you left the room? >> i knew that he needed chemotherapy followed by surgery and what we call a wide excision which means removing the tumor and taking out a rim of normal tissue out all of the way around it. i was confident i could save his life. >> reporter: he knew th...

Replace the diseased thigh bone, bruce suffered through rounds of chemo to shrink the tumor. pneumonia, ear infections,pneumr infection, dozens of pounds lost, three hospitalizations. i. could just feel my body sort of slipping away. >> reporter: even as bruce was fighting for his life, the council of dads rallied around the family. some, daily phone calls. others, weekly visits. jeff had a different tactic. one postcard a day, every single day, for a year. >> i sent him postcards. to see them all like this, what's that like. >> i have to say, it's impressive to walk in here and see these post...

As it was described to me by someone on capitol hill that there is agreement, but in the end sort of the knee bone is connected to the thigh bone, if you'll excuse the medical look at this, that if you're going to do one thing you have to figure out how to pay for it, that it's very difficult to say oh, we agree on those four things, let's pass that. >> and that challenge from lamar alexander to the president, we're willing to talk, but you have to renounce that reconciliation option where you just go with 51 votes. >> an interesting and very political choice by the republican leadership. they...