Debbie Rogers With One Healthy Lung Credits Walt Disney World With Saving Her Life
As most would imagine, running a marathons are incredibly hard. But for one woman, the runDisney events have been a journey from cancer to victory. Debbie Rogers, the 55-year old Westchester, N.Y., native and mother of five children, credits Walt Disney World Resort with saving her life.
Rogers finished the 13.1-mile Disney Wine & Dine Half Marathon on Sunday with only one healthy lung, as a result of lung cancer doctors discovered roughly 10 months ago, after she completed the 26.2-mile Disney Marathon in January.
It was during that January race at Disney that Debbie Rogers injured her foot. What she thought was a routine trip to the doctor to examine the foot turned out to be a life-altering affair. The doctors discovered a tumor on her right lung.
Because the foot injury prompted her to seek medical attention, doctors caught the cancer early. This early discovery made a full recovery far more likely. Despite having part of her right lung removed during surgery on the tumor, she is healthy enough again to run, and fittingly, made her return to competitive running at the one place – Disney – that she said “saved my life.’’
“Had I not trained for the Disney Marathon and not have had a running injury and not have completed the marathon, they would have found the lung cancer too late,’’ Rogers said. “It is very, very rare to find early stage lung cancer!!’’
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