The material manager of the NHL team Vancouver Canucks thanks a female spectator for having a mole removed from his neck which turned out to be the most serious form of skin cancer – which she informed him about during a match.
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– You changed my life, and now I want to find you to say thank you!
That’s what Brian “Red” Hamilton wrote on Twitter on New Year’s Day. The Vancouver Canucks materials manager asked most people for help finding the woman who on October 23 warned him that the spot she saw in his neck could be life-threatening: Malignant melanoma, called mole cancer.
It happened during the Vancouver Canucks’ away game against the Seattle Kraken. The woman was sitting directly behind Canucks’ bench and Brian Hamilton. But the Plexiglas between the player bench and the spectator seats separated them. Therefore, the female spectator wrote a message to Hamilton on her mobile phone, “the spot on the back of your neck is cancer” and stretched out the screen in the hope that he would see it.
Here you can see and hear the interview with an emotional Brian “Red” Hamilton where he thanks the woman who saved his life (“She saved my life”):
He did, and he took it seriously. An investigation confirmed the female spectator’s suspicion. Brian Hamilton had the mole removed – in time.
– The message you wrote will forever be etched in my brain. It has really made a life-changing difference for me and my family, writes Brian Hamilton in his Twitter search for the unknown woman.
–“Please retweet to spread the word and help us get in touch with the woman he considers to be his hero,” is the introduction to the materials manager’s call for the presumably life-saving spectator in Seattle.
Now – a few hours later – the woman is not unknown.
Later on the first day of the year, the Vancouver Canucks published a new Twitter message: “Thank you all, we’ve found her!”
“Our deepest gratitude to everyone for sharing, this would not have been possible without their help,” concludes the NHL team and Brian Hamilton.
PS! The Vancouver Canucks play against Seattle Kraken away away on Sunday night Norwegian time – as they did on October 23.
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