Melodie Picco says she talked to her Grade 1 students about Terry Fox when she was explaining that she would be leaving for cancer treatment.
“I came back and I got to teach those Grade 1s again at the Grade 4 level,” said Picco, 47, who said that going from diagnosis to a clean bill of health was made possible with magnetic-resonance imaging technology.She is stepping up to talk about her case to support the Victoria Hospitals Foundation and its Imaging is Power fundraising campaign. “It’s hard for me to share my story like this with the community but I think it’s important,” Picco said.
Picco said MRI technology “just seems to be like this magical creation that has the ability to do things that are challenging.” She has dense breast tissue, which made her tumour difficult to detect through mammograms, and nothing turned up at first.