Day 13: Diane Legg, survivor and advocate. “I turned her loss into advocacy.”

PROFILES IN LUNG CANCER
Lung Cancer Awareness Month 2015

Day 13: Diane Legg, survivor and advocate
“I turned her loss into advocacy.”

It was March of 2006. Dana Reeves had just died and I was reeling. As a young woman with lung cancer, I’d hitched my star to Dana’s, and her loss felt terribly personal. But then I happened to pick up a copy of the Newburyport Daily News. Inside was a story about a young mother of three with lung cancer; Diane Legg. I found her phone number online and called her that afternoon. We chatted a couple more times but our plans to have coffee somehow never materialized.
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