A 43-year-old mom in Florida named Kelly Avery paid tribute online to a former coworker who recently passed away. Because five years ago, he saved her life.
In 2018, she was working at a nursing home with a guy named Gary Blanchfield, who saw a small mole on the back of her arm and urged her to get it checked out. It turned out it was melanoma.
She had it removed, and she’s okay. But her doctor said if she’d waited a few more months, it would have been a different story.
She says Gary actually saved her life again several months later while she was showing him her “cool” surgery scar. He noticed another small mark near the scar, and it turned out that was melanoma too.
