One of the canuuck directors was warned during a game by a Kraken supporter. And Nadia was right.
At the beginning of the season in so many sports, we remember what happened at the beginning of the 2021/22 season of the National Hockey League (NHL).
It was really in the first game of always at home Seattle Kraken, Team that debuted at NHL at this time. The historical game was against Vancouver Canucks, who won 2-1.
But the game was historic for one of the directors of the visiting team. For a reason nothing related to ice hockey.
Nadia Popovici, Seattle’s fansaw a Director of Vancouver Even in front of you, on the bench of the visiting team.
It began to hit insistently on the glass that always separates the bench from the game room. The rival director was ignoring at first. Until the adept managed to draw the attention of Brian Hamilton, responsible for the Vancouver Canucks equipment.
Nadia was insisting because she wanted to leave a message to Brian: The spot he had on the back of his neck was skin cancer.
The Kraken supporter, who studied medicine at the time, looked at the back of the Vancouver director and noticed that it was melanoma – A type of severe skin cancer that originates from pigment -producing skin cells, melanocytes.
It was 2021, they were strong COVID-19 times, everyone with masks, a lot of noise in the pavilion. Brian didn’t even hear Nadia. How to pass the message?
The adept took it on the mobile phone and wrote “The paint you have in the back of the neck is cancer”. He leaned his cell phone to the glass, showed the director.
The adept was right: the director of the Vancouver Canucks did exams, what confirmed the skin cancer. As it was still in initial phase, The doctors got remover Malignant melanoma without difficulty. If I had ignored the signal, in four or five years it would die.
And find it?
Obviously, Brian Hamilton, and the team itself Vancouver Canucks, wanted find That person.
But how? No name, no home. It was just one of 15,000 people in the pavilion that day.
The Canadian team went to, on the first day of 2022, to ask for help: find this “special person”.
“To this woman I’m trying to find: You have saved my life, and now I want to find you to say thank you very much!” Wrote Brian.
That appeal was shared by thousands of people. And it came to Mother of Nadia“It’s my daughter. It was she who noticed and really wanted to warn him in case he wasn’t aware of the situation. She has no idea what is happening because she is sleeping,” the mother wrote, between smiles.
In the next game between these two teams, the Two met.
At one point, the game was interrupted for Nadia Popovici to be applauded throughout the pavilion.
And there was still an extra, which the 22-year-old didn’t know: the two teams joined and offered $ 10,000 to Nadia to help her with medical school expenses.
Nadia, thrilled, was incredulous. Brian hit the glass and signaled him: “Thank you. You deserve it.”
Nuno Teixeira da Silva, Zap //
