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"We may have to amputate your leg." It's hard to articulate how I felt when doctors said those words to me in 2001. "Devastating" isn't heavy enough and "hopeful" wasn't even in my vocabulary at that time.

Sarcoma—a rare cancer that grows in connective tissues—had decided to set up shop in my right hip.

For anyone, this is an awful diagnosis, but for a dancer who relies on expression and power through movement, it felt excessively cruel.

I had danced since I was a little girl. As an Egyptian-American, dance and movement is a huge part of my culture.

However, while growing up I also really got into problem solving and computers—I started to learn coding so I could build my own games.

COVID-19 has put many of our lives on hold, but I was about to realize a dream and launch a dance production in Las Vegas, something that the past two decades have almost rendered impossible on two occasions.

Back in 1997, I got early admission to study computer science at Columbia