A woman in Buffalo, New York, went from living a nightmare to living the dream, and then she got a boost she never dreamed of.
After winning her battle with cancer, Vonnie McCarter celebrated with up-close tickets to see Drake.
When he learned she was a cancer survivor, he gave her a massive cash gift.
“I was expecting maybe a wink, maybe a hug,” McCarter said.
But she ended up getting much more than that.
“He was literally just in front of me and I had my sign up and I was waving it around and it just caught his eye,” McCarter described.
He gifted the longtime fan $25,000 because she was holding the sign, which said, “Beat stage 4 cancer just in time to see Drake… ‘God’s Plan.’
She was diagnosed in June 2022.
“Devastating. I think I cried for like probably a month straight,” McCarter said.
It took her months to get that diagnosis because she’s only 35.
“They’re like, ‘We don’t do colonoscopies unless you’re 55 and older.’ So, I couldn’t get them. It took three months for me to pressure them to get them to give me a colonoscopy, and by the time that they gave me the colonoscopy, it was already at stage three,” McCarter said.
She kept pushing because she had two big motivators.
“I have 3-year-old twins at home. My son is autistic and I just knew that what there is not, absolutely no one that can take care of them the way that I can,” McCarter stated.
After a year-and-a-half of chemotherapy, the cancer spread to her lungs, making it stage four.
“Writing my kids letters every night, like, ‘If mommy’s not here, I want you to know this,’ and make it preparations for my mom to take care of my kids,” McCarter said.
She had lung surgery in December and now she’s cancer free.
“As you see, I’m still here,” the Drake fan said. “I beat this thing and it did take me every ounce of strength. It took me every tear. It took me every fight, waking up at 7 a.m. to go to Roswell to get chemotherapy treatments for four hours while I had no one to watch my kids at home.”
After her surgery, she had up to eight weeks of recovery, which led right up to Feb. 27: Drake’s show at the Key Bank Center.
“I was so excited when I realized that he was coming to Buffalo and I went alone,” McCarter added.
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