The first thing Brendan Valdes remembers is the shock.
A nine-centimeter tumor sat right in the middle of his chest, pressing against his heart and lung.
For Valdes, 23, the diagnosis on Jan. 1 came as a devastating surprise. He had always considered himself healthy. Life, only weeks earlier, seemed to be moving exactly the way he had hoped. But as he put it, in a social media post, “Life, like golf, is often unpredictable.”
He was preparing for a second season on the Korn Ferry Tour. A few days before Christmas, he had gotten engaged to his girlfriend, Rachel Gourley. Then a cold changed everything.
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