City Councilmember Ray Howard is battling Stage 4 cancer. Yet, he’s putting his energy into a different kind of fight.

For weeks, Howard has been doing his civic duty from a hospital bed more than 250 miles away in Houston, including voting to install a flood siren system.

Howard has Retroperitoneal Liposarcoma, a form of rare malignant tumors, and the battle has weakened his immune system.

Nevertheless, Howard chose to help with flood response and recovery effort. His hand was infected by the floodwaters in the process.

“Three weeks, I’ve been in the hospital almost the whole time,” Howard said. “Right now, I’ve got 11 tumors that I’m dealing with.”

Howard said chemotherapy has not worked, but is looking into a treatment in Australia he believes has a high success rate.

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