{"id":20423,"date":"2019-01-20T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T03:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/?p=20423"},"modified":"2021-07-19T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:39:30","slug":"how-a-hockey-game-helped-save-this-womans-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/how-a-hockey-game-helped-save-this-womans-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How a hockey game helped save this woman&#8217;s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><figure id=\"attachment_20427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20427\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20427\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193856\/011919-Photo-by-Jordan-Reyes-Imagery-Colorado-Eagles-41.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193856\/011919-Photo-by-Jordan-Reyes-Imagery-Colorado-Eagles-41.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193856\/011919-Photo-by-Jordan-Reyes-Imagery-Colorado-Eagles-41-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193856\/011919-Photo-by-Jordan-Reyes-Imagery-Colorado-Eagles-41-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193856\/011919-Photo-by-Jordan-Reyes-Imagery-Colorado-Eagles-41-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193856\/011919-Photo-by-Jordan-Reyes-Imagery-Colorado-Eagles-41-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193856\/011919-Photo-by-Jordan-Reyes-Imagery-Colorado-Eagles-41-200x133.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hockey fans paid special tribute to all lives that have been touched by cancer at the Colorado Eagles Fight Cancer Night game against the Tucson Roadrunners on Jan. 19, 2019. During an intermission, fans illuminated special bracelets. This photo &#8211; as well as main photo &#8211; by Jordan Reyes Imagery \/ Colorado Eagles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOVELAND, Colo. (Jan. 19, 2019) \u2013\u00a0<a id=\"LPlnk766933\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MwhKjWsy3p8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Crysta Statucki<\/a>\u00a0of Loveland might be one of the Colorado Eagles\u2019 biggest fans because the hockey team\u00a0helped save her life.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, before an Eagles hockey game, she decided to jump into UCHealth\u2019s mobile mammogram bus that was stationed just outside Budweiser Events Center to get a mammogram. She knew she needed one anyway, and she had some extra time. She later learned that she had an early form of breast cancer. She and her UCHealth care team immediately got to work on a game plan to fight. There were surgeries and several weeks of daily radiation treatments, and she beat the cancer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20424\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20424\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193845\/011919_Photo-by-Ashley-Potts-Colorado-Eagles-39.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193845\/011919_Photo-by-Ashley-Potts-Colorado-Eagles-39.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193845\/011919_Photo-by-Ashley-Potts-Colorado-Eagles-39-300x187.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193845\/011919_Photo-by-Ashley-Potts-Colorado-Eagles-39-1024x639.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193845\/011919_Photo-by-Ashley-Potts-Colorado-Eagles-39-768x479.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193845\/011919_Photo-by-Ashley-Potts-Colorado-Eagles-39-150x94.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193845\/011919_Photo-by-Ashley-Potts-Colorado-Eagles-39-200x125.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Colorado Eagles players donned special lavender jerseys in honor of the Eagles Fight Cancer Night game. Photo by Ashley Potts \/ Colorado Eagles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Saturday night, nearly two years later, she proudly stood cancer-free at center ice before a sellout crowd of more than 5,200 hockey fans to drop the puck at the team\u2019s annual Eagles Fight Cancer Night game against the Tucson Roadrunners sponsored by UCHealth.<\/p>\n<p>UCHealth and the Eagles honored many cancer survivors, their families and their supporters with tickets to the game and other special gameday experiences, including the display of a giant purple cancer ribbon on ice and a flag presentation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20425\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20425\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20425\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193848\/011919-Photo-by-Jordan-Reyes-Imagery-Colorado-Eagles-18.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193848\/011919-Photo-by-Jordan-Reyes-Imagery-Colorado-Eagles-18.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193848\/011919-Photo-by-Jordan-Reyes-Imagery-Colorado-Eagles-18-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193848\/011919-Photo-by-Jordan-Reyes-Imagery-Colorado-Eagles-18-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193848\/011919-Photo-by-Jordan-Reyes-Imagery-Colorado-Eagles-18-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193848\/011919-Photo-by-Jordan-Reyes-Imagery-Colorado-Eagles-18-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/20193848\/011919-Photo-by-Jordan-Reyes-Imagery-Colorado-Eagles-18-200x133.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cancer survivors, family members and other supporters helped present the American flag at the game. Photo by Jordan Reyes Imagery \/ Colorado Eagles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hockey fans at the game also had an opportunity to celebrate and honor their friends and loved ones whose lives have been affected by cancer by filling out \u201cI Fight For\u201d pledge cards and taking part in a special intermission tribute with illuminating bracelets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UCHealth teams up with strong community partners like the Colorado Eagles to offer our patients extraordinary experiences that create meaningful, lasting memories,\u201d said Kevin Unger, president and CEO of\u00a0<a id=\"LPlnk119404\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/locations\/uchealth-medical-center-of-the-rockies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a id=\"LPlnk326437\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/locations\/uchealth-poudre-valley-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital<\/a>. \u201cImproving lives for our patients goes beyond the walls of a doctor&#8217;s office. The annual Eagles Fight Cancer game and visits to our hospitals and cancer center always lift the spirits of our patients and their loved ones as well as\u00a0our providers and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For 10 years, the Eagles have joined with UCHealth in the fight against cancer.<\/p>\n<p>As an organization, the Eagles have raised over $350,000 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/locations\/uchealth-cancer-center-poudre-valley-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UCHealth Cancer Center &#8211; Harmony Campus<\/a> in Fort Collins.\u00a0This support has been made possible through the Eagles Fight Cancer initiative and the generosity of Eagles fans, who have contributed through a number of fundraisers.<\/p>\n<p>At Saturday\u2019s game, Eagles players donned special lavender jerseys to raise money and awareness for cancer. The lavender jerseys worn at game were auctioned off with the proceeds benefiting the UCHealth Cancer Center \u2013 Harmony Campus in Fort Collins and the Patient Assistance Fund through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealthnocofoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PVH and MCR Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe culmination of this $350,000 pledge to the Fitness and Rehabilitation Center at the UCHealth Cancer Center is a testament to the incredible passion and spirit of the Colorado Eagles and their fans,\u201d said Eagles media relations director Kevin McGlue. \u201cWithout the incredible generosity of our phenomenal fan base, this would not have been possible. This community has been so well served by this outstanding facility and its staff and we are honored to have played a small role in its success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOVELAND, Colo. (Jan. 19, 2019) \u2013\u00a0Crysta Statucki\u00a0of Loveland might be one of the Colorado Eagles\u2019 biggest fans because the hockey team\u00a0helped save her life. In 2017, before an Eagles hockey game, she decided to jump into UCHealth\u2019s mobile mammogram bus that was stationed just outside Budweiser Events Center to get a mammogram. 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