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[uga-blog]

"At the age of 23, UGA grad Patricia Andrews was ecstatic to learn that she had gotten into grad school at The University of Oxford. Twelve hours later, at a routine dermatology appointment, doctors found a tumor the size of a coconut in her side. Only a few years after losing her father to cancer, Andrews was terrified. After removing the melanoma and most of her oblique muscle, doctors were confident that the worst was over. Unfortunately, complications ensued and they found yet another mass. During her excruciating recovery process, Andrews had an epiphany.

"It was in that moment, with tubes coming out of my side and a picc-line in my arm that two things came into focus," she says. "1) I would have to be exceptionally vigilant in my pursuit of health. 2) Life is undeniably fragile, so it should be lived to its fullest…right now."

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