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A father-of-two is facing the biggest battle of his life after hurting his bicep while swinging on the monkey bars at a playground resulted in a devastating cancer diagnosis.
Gold Coast teacher Matthew Fydler, 43, was left speechless last year when doctors confirmed he had rhabdomyosarcoma, which forms in soft tissue and is more common in children.
Fydler booked in to see a doctor less than 24 hours after injuring his arm while at a local park with his kids, Kai and Millie.
With the pain in his arm not subsiding, the director of the sports academy at Terranora's Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School was stunned to hear he had the uncommon cancer type.
Gold Coast teacher Matthew Fydler is facing the biggest battle of his life after he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer
The doting father of two injured his bicep at a local park with his two kids - with the pain getting more severe, he saw his local doctor, who later confirmed he had rhabdomyosarcoma
An ultrasound discovered a large mass initially believed to be a hematoma - a collection of blood outside a blood vessel.
Fydler underwent five weeks of radiation therapy and had additional surgery
