05/26/2026
Before heading back to California to keep fighting for his life, Will Roberts went on a wild hog hunt with his friends until 2 in the morning.
He packed his oxycodone just in case the pain got too bad. The boys stayed out anyway.
For a few hours on his last night home in Alabama, Will Roberts was not a cancer patient. He was just a 15-year-old kid with a thermal scope and his friends in the dark, doing exactly what he loves. His mom Brittney watched him go and let herself breathe for the first time in a while.
"Sometimes your soul needs a good day just as much as your body does," she wrote.
But the news that came before he left may be the most significant update in Will's entire journey.
His extensive genetic tumor profile is now complete and in the hands of Dr. Gordon and Dr. Chawla in California. That matters enormously. The challenge throughout Will's treatment has not been whether DeltaRex-G works — it is finding the right combination of treatments around it. The chemotherapy he was previously receiving was knocking down not just the cancer but everything else in his body, sometimes lowering his counts so severely that it interfered with the treatments he actually needed.
Now his doctors have something different. They have the genetic blueprint of Will's specific tumor — the exact mutations and markers driving his osteosarcoma. From that, they can begin building a personalized chemotherapy recipe designed specifically for him rather than for cancer in general.
This is what Will's mom has been waiting for. This is what the community that rallied around a teenager's secret phone video has been praying toward.
Will is heading back to California. The fight continues. But for the first time in a while, his doctors have a map.
Please keep Will, Brittney, Jason, and little Charlie in your prayers this week. One step at a time. One prayer at a time.
