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WRC-TV’s Wendy Rieger Says of Surgery to Remove Brain Tumor: “I Have Never Felt Luckier”
Wendy Rieger, news anchor at WRC-TV in D.C., told colleagues and viewers that she has “never felt luckier” following brain surgery to remove a tumor.
Rieger said her doctor in Pittsburgh was able to remove “99.99999%” of the cancer. Now, she’s getting treatment at Johns Hopkins, where she’s taking medicine that teaches her body how to attack her specific kind of cancer.
“There’s just a lot of things that come into focus very sharply when you are facing a crisis like this that make you, again, at the unluckiest time in my life, I have never felt luckier so and I have to remember that,” Rieger said.
“I’m just gonna go back to chasing life,” she added.
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