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Community Rallies Together for Haddam-Killingworth Field Hockey Coach Diagnosed with Cancer

Various groups are now rallying together to try and help their sick coach​ through a very difficult time.

The Connecticut field hockey community has rallied together to help and pray for a Haddam-Killingworth coach who has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Game Time CT reported.

Members of the Haddam-Killingworth field hockey team learned in December that their coach, Patsy Kamercia, has myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm unclassifiable disorder (MDS/MPN-UC), according to CT Game Time. The sickness creates a group of diseases in which the bone marrow makes too many white blood cells.

Various groups are now rallying together to try and help their sick coach through a very difficult time, CT Game Time reported.

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