“I’m trying to find an extraordinary person and I need the hockey community to help me,” Hamilton wrote on Twitter to Canucks. “For the woman I’m trying to find: you’ve changed my life and I want to find you so I can say a huge thank you! The problem is I don’t know who you are or where you’re from,” he added.
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But the heroine was quickly found thanks to her mother, who, as a great Kraken fan, noticed the tweet. “God, she must be my daughter. She has just been admitted to medicine,” she wrote, helping to stage a happy reunion with 22-year-old Nadia Popovic. In addition, the two clubs teamed up and donated $ 10,000 to pay for future medical tuition.
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Hamilton did not know about the possible risk until last October, but during the Vancouver game in Seattle, he was noticed by a girl sitting right behind the guests’ switch. At first she struggled to get his attention, and finally she wrote a message on her cell phone: “The mark on the back of your neck is cancerous.”
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After returning to Vancouver, Hamilton was examined and a biopsy revealed a malignant melanoma. “It extended my life, saved me,” Hamilton said in an interview with the American media. “She didn’t pull me out of the burning car, but it saved me the slow trouble. She was so persistent and I just want her to know that her perseverance saved my life.”
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