A spectator who helped a member of the Vancouver Canucks organization discover and treat cancer was found thanks to a call to everyone on Twitter on Saturday.
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Brian Hamilton, assistant to the equipment attendant for the Canadian team, suffered from malignant melanoma. A fierce and vigilant spectator, present at the game once morest the Kraken in Seattle on October 23, saw what looked like a mole in Hamilton’s neck. She managed to get the man’s attention before showing him a message on his phone.
Hamilton then saw the team doctor and had the cancerous tumor removed.
“I want you all to know it’s not regarding me. This is an amazing person who took the time to see something disturbing and find a way to let me know with the chaos of a hockey game, ”Hamilton wrote in a post on Canucks accounts on social media.
“We are looking for this amazing person and we need you to share this with your friends and family to help us find a real life heroine, to whom I can express my sincere appreciation.”
Success
This bottle thrown into the water quickly found its recipient. The mother of this woman – the latter having recently been accepted into several medical schools – reacted on Twitter.
“Oh my God!!! It’s my daughter! We have season tickets behind the opposing teams’ bench and she’s noticed the mole in her neck. […] He saw his message quickly and he nodded, ”wrote Yukyung Nelson.
The young woman, named Nadia Popovici, will be present for the game between the two teams on Saturday night in Washington State. And Hamilton intends to thank her.
“It extended my life,” he said on video conference shortly before the game. I have a wonderful family, I have a wonderful daughter … She has prolonged my life. She saved my life. She didn’t pull me out of a burning car like in a movie, but she pulled me out of a slow fire … she’s a heroine. “
