FAIRMONT — (Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of features about cancer survivors that will be published throughout the week leading to Friday’s Relay for Life at Fairmont State University).
Alice Moore has a good friend to thank for saving her life.
About five years ago, the then-63-year-old Mannington resident was getting a massage from her friend Nancy Metz.
She had been going to Metz on a regular basis for five or six years for massages, but during this particular visit, Metz asked her for a favor. Moore said Metz asked her to “please go for a checkup, because I feel there’s something wrong with you.”
And that very day, she called her doctor and scheduled a physical and a mammogram for later in the week. On the night after the mammogram, Moore’s doctor called her and asked her to come back the following day, where she was told that they had found something.
