Humor is best Rx for cancer survivor

By Cynthia Kimball Humphreys

Deseret News

Published: Monday, Feb. 1 2010 10:26 a.m. MST

I

always wondered who the anonymous cancer survivor was in a picture

taken of me and LDS President Thomas S. Monson at the Huntsman Cancer

Hospital groundbreaking on Oct. 31, 2008.

Well,

earlier this month, after attending my own checkup at the Huntsman

Cancer Institute, I found that unknown cancer survivor hanging out at

the Huntsman gift shop.

\"I know you. ... Where do I know you from?\"

\"I don't know,\" she said dumbfounded.

\"You look so familiar...\"

\"You do, too.\"

\"Oh,

I know, I know ... you were the one I was photographed with at the

Huntsman's Cancer Hospital's groundbreaking with President Monson!\"

\"Yeah, yeah, that's right,\" she said, smiling.

Her

name's Linda May Hill, a single mother of seven children with her first

grandbaby on the way, but she's anything but anonymous or unknown.

We

hugged tightly. It was as though I'd found a long-lost kindred sister,

and in essence I had. Once a breast cancer survivor sister always one.

Whether you've known each other or not.

Come to find out, since our picture was taken that Halloween day, Hill's been anything but nameless.

This

month she's on the cover of Wasatch Women's magazine as Wasatch's Women

of the Year, has appeared on \"The Glenn Beck Show,\" National Public

Radio, KUTV/Ch. 2, and on K-Bull 93 F.M., raising money for cancer

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