A Vancouver Island cancer patient who gave up on the provincial healthcare system in favour of life-saving treatment in Washington State, will get to spend Christmas with her family and ring in the New Year.
Campbell River’s Kristin Logan suspects that would not have happened if she had stuck with British Columbia’s backed-up system.
“I’m coming out (of rounds of treatment) and surgery just in time for the holidays,” Logan said from the University of Washington Medical Centre in Seattle.
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