Photo: Lisa Amato Formato Facebook
A Massapequa woman died Friday after a long battle with melanoma.
Services were held Monday for Lisa Amato Formato, 29, at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Massapequa Park.
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A loving wife, daughter, and aunt, Lisa lived six years with melanoma and blogged about how she turned to nutrition and holistic methods alongside the medical expertise of Sloan Kettering doctors.
“I followed the windy turns of which ever direction the path wanted to take me and I wound up on the holistic, all natural route,” she wrote of her experience. “It kinda just happened.... and boy, am I happy it did. I feel good for the most part and am seeing some amazing results.”
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Lisa is survived by her husband, Michael, her parents, Anthony and Debbie, her brothers, Anthony and Kevin, and three nieces and nephews.
“Life is short, people,” she ended her last post on her blog. “Don’t take what you have right in front of you for granted… There is always someone worse off and you never know what tomorrow will bring.”
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