At 27, Jackie Garcia began feeling deeply exhausted.

“It’s the type of the fatigue you can’t really feel refreshed from. You take naps and you go to sleep, but you still wake up really tired,” Garcia, now 33, of Houston, tells TODAY.com. “It would hit 6 o’clock and I would be so exhausted, (have a) headache that I would just take ibuprofen and pass out and then wake up for work (the next morning).”

Even though she worked out, she gained weight. Eventually Garcia experienced numbness in her legs, making it tough for her to move. Worried, she visited several doctors to understand what was wrong. They told her to lose weight by walking and watching what she ate.

After five years of worsening symptoms, Garcia finally learned what was wrong: She had a 20-pound retroperitoneal liposarcoma, a

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