COVID-19 in the province.“A sad, scared and discouraged daughter,” Taylor Hicks signs her letter to Premier Iain Rankin.Hicks’ mother, Susie Hicks-Gordon who lives in Amherst, N.S..
first went to the hospital in February for abdominal pain. Hicks says it was especially concerning because her mother has a genetic predisposition to certain types of cancers.“These include mesothelioma, ocular melanoma, kidney cancer and lung cancer,” Hicks told Global News.
Nova Scotia hospitals reduce some services as COVID-19 cases rise The family first found out about the gene mutation following her grandmother’s death from ocular melanoma, and the cancer diagnoses of several other family members.“They did a little bit of investigating and found out we.