Credit: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
(Credit: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta)

Montana Brown is one tough cookie who has beat cancer twice.

When she was 2 years old, Montana was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer of the connective tissue called rhabdomyosarcoma.

After undergoing chemotherapy, she was cancer free. When she turned 15 she was diagnosed with cancer AGAIN.

After her second round of chemotherapy at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Cancer Center, Montana knew for sure she knew what she wanted to do with the rest of her life.

She says all of those days spent with nurses made her realize that she wants to be one.

“The nurses here, as great as they were when I was 2 — from what my mom says — they were extremely loving and caring and compassionate. And, just the love they showed me and my family in our time of need just really helped me,” she told WSB-TV Atlanta.

“I really wanted to be that person where when I said, ‘Hey, I totally understand. This is where I was. This is where I am now.’ That me and my patients would form a bond. I’m not walking through the doors as a patient anymore. I am walking through as a staff member.”

Montana is no longer a patient at CHACC, she is a nurse.

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