Positively Pueblo: Cancer patient takes on new battle

became a cancer survivor, but now she has another battle she’s facing, recovery. krdo newschannel 13’s carl winder shows us one hospital’s help is positively pueblo. nola long fought skin cancer in her throat..she survived the disease.. but her fight isn’t over. Sot: i just pray that they never have to deal with this it isn’t something you wish on anybody to go through it. since it took radiation to beat it …now she has to deal with the after effects. Sot: i lost 25 pounds my strength deteriorated and once you lose fat you are also losing muscle. that’s where saint mary corwin medical center came in. long is part of the cancer fit program at the hospital. the program helps people who survived cancer and uses exercise as a treatment in the recovery process. Sot: one of the things about cancer treatment programs is it takes a lot out of people between the surgeries, the chemotherapy, the radiation, so many people end up with side affects like fatigue, weakness that they incurred and much of the time they have a difficult time getting back to work. for long she knows it’s a long road back to get back to where she was before cancer. but she will do it one step and one lift at a time. in pueblo carl winder krdo newschanne l 13. saint mary corwin says it has helped more than a hundred people with this program for their