A 38-year-old mother of three from Lehi, Melanie Pearson Day, has been diagnosed with stage IV terminal breast cancer. Doctors have told her she has two to five years to live. Five years is possible, but 10 years is unlikely.
Despite that awful death sentence, for the past week, Day has felt like the luckiest person alive.
Day learned more than a month ago that she and her husband, Preston, would be checking off the No. 1 item on her bucket list by attending last Thursday’s basketball game between arch-rivals Duke and North Carolina at iconic Cameron Indoor Stadium.