{"id":47584,"date":"2016-12-08T16:05:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T22:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=47584"},"modified":"2016-12-08T16:10:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T22:10:46","slug":"climb-till-i-cant-climb-young-amputee-continues-his-sport-despite-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/climb-till-i-cant-climb-young-amputee-continues-his-sport-despite-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen climber continues his sport despite cancer and loss of leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Siyan (Jen) Huang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Climbing is a sport that requires great courage and strength.<\/p>\n<p>I met 17-year-old Ian Vallejo,\u00a0an agile climber who had lost a leg to cancer, right after his second round of chemotherapy for yet another cancer. He was pale and sitting in a wheelchair. It was hard for me to picture him climbing indoor rock walls and outdoor mountainsides considering his physical condition.<\/p>\n<p>But one week later, I saw him hiking with a pair of walking sticks and climbing up a cliff in Arkansas. All doubts disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I can stand, I can climb.\u201d That is what Vallejo said when people question whether he can climb.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Climb till I Can&amp;rsquo;t Climb\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/194750887?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">(Video by Siyan Huang\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although he is only 17, Vallejo already has a long history of climbing. He started in third grade.\u00a0Philip Winter &#8211; his uncle, a high school P.E. teacher, and a climber since his teens &#8211; was the first teacher to introduce Vallejo to the sport of climbing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimbing is pretty much everything,\u201d said Vallejo, \u201cWhen I was really sick, it was my reason to get out of the house and to get active.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2015, osteosarcoma, a malignant tumor on his left tibia, resulted in the amputation of his left leg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very scary time,\u201d said Elizabeth Vallejo, Ian\u2019s mother. \u201cBut he has handled it like a champ. He really just viewed it as something that he just needs to get through, and he will, and just another challenge in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, at first, after the amputation, he just wanted to stay in bed. It was his mother who got him out of the bed, and convinced him to go back to the climbing gym.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was in quite a bit of pain. And he couldn\u2019t move around. I think he was trying to figure out what life was going to look like,\u201d said Elizabeth Vallejo. \u201cAnd climbing has always been something he\u2019d loved. It has been his passion, his thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal was to have no physical limitations after the amputation. So climbing was the best way to do that.\u201d With that, Ian Vallejo went back onto the climbing wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really good that I knew that I could do this and do this well even after losing my leg,\u201d Vallejo recalled the first climbing after his amputation. Luckily, he not only got back to what he loves, but also found his own community \u2013 the Adaptive Climbing Group of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The Adaptive Climbing Group is a community for people with disabilities to help them participate in the sport of climbing. It\u2019s based in a climbing gym called the Brooklyn Boulders, 100 S. Morgan St. Adaptive climbers\u00a0get together every Wednesday to work on their climbing skills and pursue their climbing dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Vallejo believes that the community has given him plenty of power and helped him climb better.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019ve become my best friends. They&#8217;re always\u00a0there for me when I need them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, he also tries to help other climbers in the community to get as much improvement as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Sauder, an adaptive climber with a visual impairment and a special education high school teacher, met Vallejo in the Adaptive Climbing Group and became one of his best friends. \u201cHe is really good at motivating people,\u201d she said. \u201cHe knows what people can do and pushes them just a little bit to the hardest thing that they can do, and tries to help them to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the amputation and nine months of intense chemotherapy, there was no evidence of disease. Vallejo had conquered\u00a0cancer. He started to focus on climbing competitively. He competed in national championships and was selected for the national team to compete in world championships because of his outstanding climbing ability.<\/p>\n<p>However, just when he thought everything was going\u00a0right, his doctors had bad news. About four months ago, they found another tumor developing on his sacrum. The tumor is pressing on his sciatic nerve, the nerve that runs from each side of the lower spine, which took away his ability to walk.<\/p>\n<p>This new tumor required another round of chemotherapy and forced him out of competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI lost 30 pounds. A lot of it was muscle,\u201d said Vallejo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he received a lot of chemo, [his strength] washed away and he\u00a0hasn\u2019t been able to work out for months. It makes it really hard in order to keep climbing,\u201d said Winter. \u201cBut he recovered so quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will climb till I can\u2019t climb anymore,\u201d Vallejo said with an unquestionably optimistic expression. In order to continue to climb, he has to keep exercising and build his strength back again. He said he wants to go to the Great Stone of Fourstones in North Yorkshire in England, Lion\u2019s Head in South Africa and China for outdoor climbing in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Besides climbing, Vallejo also has other plans for his future. He said he wants to study prosthetics and orthotics in college. \u201cI feel I\u2019ve been very fortunate with the care I\u2019ve received from my prosthetist. And I want to be able to do that for other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a climber, he\u2019s confident, he\u2019s capable, he\u2019s intelligent and he thinks about what he is doing,\u201d said Winter. \u201cI have a lot of confidence in him as a young man.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Ian Vallejo&#8217;s first outdoor climb in Arkansas since his second round of chemotherapy. (Siyan (Jen) Huang\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Siyan (Jen) Huang Climbing is a sport that requires great courage and strength. I met 17-year-old Ian Vallejo,\u00a0an agile climber who had lost a leg to cancer, right after his second round of chemotherapy for yet another cancer. He was pale and sitting in a wheelchair. 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