Cathy Meyers had already fought cancer twice, once in 1992, again in 2003, before she was diagnosed for a third time with neuroendocrine cancer in the pancreas in 2009. She thought her time was up. How could fate hand someone a proverbial death sentence three times in a row, with the third being the same cancer that sent Steve Jobs to his deathbed?
In November 2010, she was told by her home oncologist that she had three months until she became too sick to work. She made self-referrals to the Mayo Clinic and City of Hope before she went into work, which just happened to be during open enrollment season. Her employer, Home Depot, had just signed on with Best Doctors, a service that offers a second opinion on medical cases to employees at no cost to the employee. And she thought, “Why not?”
