Porscha Barry is a nurse with the cardiac critical care unit at Atrium Health. You’ll occasionally find her at the piano in the Levine Cancer Center, spreading a little joy as she faces her own battle with cancer.
Barry is currently undergoing chemotherapy. She was first diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2024. It was in remission, but then, she says it metastasized to her liver and pancreas.
“I was told there was no cure,” Barry told Channel 9’s Elsa Gillis. “It’s strange because when you work in nursing, you deal with death on a daily basis. You see it all the time, but I think that whenever they told me, that was the first time I felt like death was staring back at me.”…