For sophomore Cade Sullivan, the football game on September 11th was the first game of the season.

For his father Scott, it very well may be the last game in which he gets to watch his son play, after being diagnosed with a rare and untreatable cancer on August.

Last month, Scott couldn’t find the right words to describe his feeling as the doctor diagnosed him with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis. This rare form of cancer is one of the most malignant ones in which the cancer cells spreads to the brains and the membrane.

Because of its rarity and lethality, patients who are diagnosed with this cancer are given a life expectancy of 2 to 4 months even as they receive treatment. Diagnosed in August, that likely leaves Scott with limited time that he can spend with his loved ones.

After he came to terms with his disease, Scott has since been discharged from the hospital and has been staying at Hospice of Lake Cumberland. He told his nurse Jerree Humphrey that his last wish was to see Cade play football for one last time.

Cade’s first game was to be held in Belfry, a town that takes 3.5 hours by car. Out of love for his son, Scott even considered driving the whole distance with his ailing body. As Humphrey listened to Scott, she wondered if there was anything she could do for Scott.

Although there is no clause whatsoever in her contracts to do so, Humphrey got in touch with a local airport. After a few phone calls, a local dentist who also has a pilot’s license said he was willing to fly Scott to Cade’s football game.

Thus on the 11th, the dentist flew Scott, his girlfriend and nurse Humphrey 200 miles to Belfry. Although they landed far enough to practice social distancing, Cade ran up the hills and embraced his father as soon as he spotted him.

The kind nurse said she couldn’t help but shed tears at the wholesome hug, saying that it was so clear to everybody how thankful Cade was for his father flying all the way to his game.

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