“Never in a million years did I think that at the age of 24 I would have achieved my biggest and wildest dream - to work at the hospital I was treated at as a child/teenager.”
A two-time cancer survivor is paying it forward by working as a nurse at the same hospital where she beat her disease.
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Montana Brown of Atlanta was only two years old when she was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer of the connective tissue, ABC News reported.
Brown, now 24, underwent chemo for a year at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and beat the disease.
But when she was 15, her cancer returned.
"I had just tried out for my high school cheerleading team," Brown told ABC News. "I actually ran a mile while I had cancer and had no idea...There weren't symptoms but my mom and dad could tell that something was different about me and they knew that something was a little off."
She underwent chemo again, and beat the disease again. She said the staff at the Aflac center were instrumental in helping her family through the tough time.
"The nurses here, as great as they were when I was two — from what my mom says — they were extremely loving and caring and compassionate," she told ABC News. "And, just the love they showed me and my family in our time of need just really helped me. It helped me want to become as kind and as caring and as compassionate as they were for me."
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Her experience inspired Brown to become a pediatric oncology nurse herself, and last week, she started work at the same hospital where she beat her disease. Fittingly, she started work during September, which is childhood cancer awareness month.
Brown wrote on Facebook that working at the center was a dream come true.
"I'm so overwhelmed with this amazing life that God has chosen to give me," she said. "Never in a million years did I think that at the age of 24 I would have achieved my biggest and wildest dream — to work at the hospital I was treated at as a child/teenager. It's amazing and crazy and awesome and I'm SO excited to work for such an inspirational organization!"
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The hospital shared Brown's story on its Facebook page, and people were amazed by her story.
People on Facebook said that Brown's story was an inspiration for all the tiny cancer fighters out there.
"Praying my daughter, who fought brain cancer, gets this same opportunity!!!" one woman wrote. "Cancer has a way of putting life in perspective and making you dream bigger!"
BuzzFeed News has contacted Brown and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta for comment.
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