Health
- Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 June 2015 13:24
A local family impacted by cancer has pulled together to help others in the Mon Valley fighting the battle. They recently donated $500 to Monongahela Valley Hospital's Charles L. and Rose Sweeney Melenyzer Pavilion and Regional Cancer Center for its Ensure Fund.
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| A check from the Jereme Dudzinski Foundation is presented to MVH's Mon-Vale Oncology Group |
Jonathan Dudzinski lost his brother Jereme to testicular cancer at age 32 on Nov. 27, 2013. The family presented a check recently from the Jereme Dudzinski Foundation.
The donation will support the Regional Cancer Center's Ensure fund. In 2012, MVH staff members began raising money to provide these vital nutritional supplements to cancer patients at no cost.
Jonathan's mother-in-law Linda Vernet, is a two-time breast cancer survivor who lost her husband Joseph on Feb. 13 to lung cancer. He was treated at MVH's Regional Cancer Center and she is still receiving treatment.
Photo at right:
Presenting the check from the Jereme Dudzinski Foundation to MVH's Mon-Vale Oncology Manager Bonny Holmes are (l-r): Jonathan Dudzinski, his mother-in-law Linda Vernet and his mother Marie Dudzinski, who is holding Jonathan's son, Nathan, age 2. They all live in Belle Vernon. The family is shown with more than 40 cases of Ensure, which their donation will help underwrite. Absent from the photo are Mr. Dudzinski's wife and daughter, Jennifer and Ava, age 6; his father, John Dudzinski and his brother, Jacob.
