Nicholle Anderson, wife of American Ice Hockey player, Craig Anderson was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a rare form of throat cancer in October 2016. The player left his team on a two-month leave to go stay with her as she goes through the journey gradually.
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“I wanted to stay with her. It was the unknown. We didn’t know what extent of anything was. If the cancer was life-threatening and she had three months to live, I would have felt horrible going back. It kind of worked out. We didn’t know. She insisted that I go back, that my hockey family needed me. We were with her family in Pennsylvania. She has her family. She had some support, which was huge, and allowed me to go back,” Craig said.
After returning to the team, he shared that there was a change in his life but his hockey family helped him out.
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“I was able to use hockey and use my teammates as a source to get away from my personal life and have a three-hour moment of peace. When you’re on the ice, there’s nothing in the world but that puck and you’re competing. You’re at peace. You have nothing to worry about. That was three hours that I had, and then you go back to life right after,” he added.
In May 2017, he announced that Nicholle had been declared cancer free by the doctors.
“She did PET scan and MRIs, and as of right now everything is clean and we’ll just cross our fingers. We’ve got to do scans, I think, every three months. As of right now, things are positive, but you’re not out of the woods yet until you get, I think, two years of cancer-free news,” he shared.
Nicholle also shared some positive news afterward.
“Things are going in the right direction… go out there and have fun,” she said. ” The two words we prayed to hear… CANCER FREE!“
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