Montana State nursing student overcomes cancer to graduate with high honors
Peyton Michnal, who attended high school in Kalispell, is set to graduate from Montana State University nursing program following treatment for brain cancer. (Courtesy photo)
BOZEMAN — School usually wasn’t a problem for Peyton Michnal, but during her first year in the Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing at Montana State University, she had trouble understanding and memorizing basic concepts. And she was losing weight.
During finals week of her second semester, doctors discovered a tumor and diagnosed her with a rare form of brain cancer.
Michnal took a year off school for treatment. She has since returned to the nursing college and is set to graduate Dec. 15 with high honors.
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