In Remembrance of Kristy Hammam

Editor’s observe: Bob Brisco is the CEO of Internet Brands, the mother or father firm of WebMD.

Dec. 24, 2021 — We’ve misplaced Kristy Hammam, WebMD’s very long time editor, to most cancers.   She was solely 50.

Kristy’s passing is mindless.

She did as a lot to coach the general public about good well being as virtually anybody, ever.  She took care of herself and her household.  Exercised.  Ate proper.  Got each most cancers screening on schedule.  She was at all times optimistic, like sunshine.  The medical odds and karmic gods had been at all times in her favor. 

When identified with breast most cancers three years in the past she embraced each type of therapy— immunotherapy, radiation, chemo.  And it labored.  For some time.  Until it didn’t.

At first, it’s exhausting to drag the teachings from Kristy’s life.   Because it is mindless.  She did every little thing proper.  And nonetheless, this.

But the teachings are there.  You do the correct issues in life as a result of they’re the correct issues to do in life.  Not as a result of there are ensures.  But as a result of as a mother or father and as a pacesetter, the percentages at all times matter.    Because you’re a position mannequin.  And since you are good and brave to your core. 

About a month in the past, Kristy flew from Atlanta to Washington DC, alone, to be together with her greatest buddy.  Blind and compromised, however by no means actually, she flew as an unaccompanied minor. 

I don’t assume I’ve ever met anybody extra grownup than Kristy.  She at all times took accountability.  She at all times made issues higher. 

I do know I converse for everybody at WebMD once I say we’ve misplaced one among our greatest human beings. 

It won’t ever make sense.  But she wouldn’t need it to vary something about our mission, which was her mission too.