Girl Who Beat Cancer Twice Returns To The Same Hospital 20 Years Later, But This Time As A Nurse
Cancer is a bitch, everyone knows that. 24 year old Montana Brown knows it, having been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer of the connective tissue not once, but twice as a child.
The first shock came when she was just 2 years old. Her parents took her to AFLAC Cancer Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where after a year of chemotherapy she was thankfully in remission. She went on to have a normal and happy childhood until the next seismic event – the cancer returned when she was 15.
She went back again to AFLAC for more chemotherapy, and again came out on top. It was these difficult battles that she fought and survived that inspired her to become a nurse. “The nurses here were extremely loving and caring and compassionate. The love they showed me and my family in our time of need just really helped me,” she told ABC news. “It helped me want to become as kind and as caring and as compassionate as they were for me.”
Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it is Montana that is working as a nurse. She believes that her difficult personal experiences with cancer can help her create a special empathetic bond with children battling cancer, becoming a source of hope and inspiration for them. “I really wanted to be that person that can say hey, I totally understand. This is where I was. This is where I am now.”
As well as her empathy, expertise and experience Montana brings with her a ton of enthusiasm to her new job. “Never in a million years did I think that at the age of 24 I would have achieved my biggest and wildest dream – to work at the hospital I was treated at as a child/teenager,” she writes on a Facebook post. “It’s amazing and crazy and awesome and I’m SO excited to work for such an inspirational organization!!
More info: AFLAC Cancer Center
Aged just 2 years old, Montana Brown was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer
She survived and went on to have a normal and happy childhood until the next seismic event – the cancer returned when she was 15
It was these difficult battles that she fought and survived that inspired her to become a nurse
“It’s amazing and crazy and awesome and I’m SO excited to work for such an inspirational organization!! She wrote on Facebook. People were eager to support her!
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Share on FacebookFantastic! Excellent achievement, you will be able to give those children so much. I love being a paediatric nurse x
I'm sure her actual passion for her job (unlike most of us who only enjoy ours every second Friday) will rub off on her patients. I gotta say it though: "Never in a million years did I think that at the age of 24 I would have achieved my biggest and wildest dream" sounds a bit weird. Just getting to 24? That sounds like a more applicable wildest dream for her. Why is it that hard to believe you'd be working as a nurse in a specific hospital at 24? That's not like the gazillion to one odds of getting a job as CEO of Hewlett Packard or something. Strange wording, that's all. Now bring on the downvotes!
My guess is, she had cancer twice. Maybe she didn't expect herself to live until 24 in the first place, so she chose words that might sound a bit exaggerated. But it's just a guess.
Load More Replies...Great that she is not tired of hospitals - especially the one where she fought so hard. So she must have had good experience with the staff and much appreciation for the paediatric nurses. 😊
Nice! And I bet anything she will never get into that jaded stuff that so many nurses end up getting into. It ain't no fun and games. I get it. I could never do it even though the worst thing I've ever had is food poisoning. I admire the true fighters.
Fantastic! Excellent achievement, you will be able to give those children so much. I love being a paediatric nurse x
I'm sure her actual passion for her job (unlike most of us who only enjoy ours every second Friday) will rub off on her patients. I gotta say it though: "Never in a million years did I think that at the age of 24 I would have achieved my biggest and wildest dream" sounds a bit weird. Just getting to 24? That sounds like a more applicable wildest dream for her. Why is it that hard to believe you'd be working as a nurse in a specific hospital at 24? That's not like the gazillion to one odds of getting a job as CEO of Hewlett Packard or something. Strange wording, that's all. Now bring on the downvotes!
My guess is, she had cancer twice. Maybe she didn't expect herself to live until 24 in the first place, so she chose words that might sound a bit exaggerated. But it's just a guess.
Load More Replies...Great that she is not tired of hospitals - especially the one where she fought so hard. So she must have had good experience with the staff and much appreciation for the paediatric nurses. 😊
Nice! And I bet anything she will never get into that jaded stuff that so many nurses end up getting into. It ain't no fun and games. I get it. I could never do it even though the worst thing I've ever had is food poisoning. I admire the true fighters.
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