SAN ANTONIO — Eddie Salas knows what it's like to fight on the gridiron, having called the plays as head coach for Harlan Hawks Football since 2016.

Last spring, Salas found himself in a different battle--one against cancer.

His story started when he experienced some back pain last year that he decided to have checked out. It led to a phone call on Christmas Eve that changed his life.

"'Is your wife there?'" he recalls the doctor saying. "'Y'all might wanna sit down for this.' I knew that wasn't good."

Salas was told that two of his back disks were highlighted on an MRI.

"The radiologist that read the MRI said that it was cancer."

Eight months later, Salas is in remission--the culmination of a fight rooted in faith and an important realization he had one evening after his diagnosis

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