You may have already heard about the fan in the hockey arena who spotted a mole on the neck of an assistant equipment manager of the Vancouver Canucks, told him she thought it might be cancerous, and probably saved his life.
Even if you’ve heard it, it’s worth repeating. It is so wonderful in an era of Covid, Facebook lies, and an almost continuous stream of bad news. The 22-year-old woman, Nadia Popovici, a volunteer at a hospital as a nursing assistant, knew what cancerous moles looked like. She spotted one on Brian Hamilton’s neck, put a message on her phone that said, “The mole on the back of your neck is possibly cancerous. Please go see a doctor.”
She got his attention, put the phone up against the plexiglass, and held it there. When the mole was removed, it was indeed cancerous, and Mr. Hamilton learned that if he had not acted, the cancer would have spread, and he would have soon been in big trouble.
The Canucks and the Seattle Kraken teams invited Ms. Popovici to meet Mr. Hamilton. The teams provided her with a $10,000 scholarship to use for medical school expenses. It’s a ray of sunshine in these dark times.
See Eduardo Medina, “Discovering Cancerous Mole From Stands, She Saves a Life, (New York Times, (Jan. 4, 2022), p. B9.
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