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Some patients have shared their inspirational story. Click on their names to read more.
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Jim Abrahams
“There’s no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you’ll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?” – “Airplane,” 1980.
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Cecilia Alvear
"It humbles me that I have been so privileged to receive such superb medical care,” says Cecilia. “I thank City of Hope for giving me extra years, and I thank my sisters and friends for their loving support.”
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Tara Branham
“I don’t need ‘Fear Factor’,” says Tara Branham, referring to the reality show that tests one’s mettle against stomach-churning challenges. “I know exactly what I’m made of.”
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Linda Daee
“You have to have faith in people. Never underestimate their strength of spirit and compassion.”
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JD Dudek
With athletic determination, a week after his BMT, JD was “doing laps around the BMT unit like there was no stopping him,” says his physician, Neil Kogut, M.D. |
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Ramsey Hakim
“Of course, it was a difficult time,” he recalls, “but what I remember most is the gentleness and enormous sense of caring extended to me by City of Hope staff.”
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Milos Holan
While hockey is Milos’ life-blood, he is equally passionate about the gift of life made possible by his BMT and the care he received at City of Hope.
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Sean Kent
“You know you’re at your low point,” says Sean, “when you’re lying in a hospital bed battling for your life, watching episodes of a reality show you’ve already been kicked off of.”
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Jeff Mauer
"I just want to encourage other people to go to their doctors regularly and have routine blood tests. If you are healthy, donate blood.” As a firefighter and a leukemia survivor, Jeff knows that saving a life can be as simple as donating blood.
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Rodrigo Nuñez
“One of the nurses gave me her lunch because I had arrived after mealtime,” he recalls. “I was so grateful, I told her, ‘I am going to be just like you: I am going to become a nurse.’”
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Jordan Scott
“I was the typical 19-year-old struggling with my identity and caught up in minutiae,” Jordan says. “Facing my mortality changed me.”
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Betty 'Jeannie' Whitman
Over the past years, Jeannie and her siblings have enjoyed regular visits and family reunions...She is healthy and grateful to be part of a large, loving family.
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Sherry Wilbur
In service to others who are suffering through the fear she once knew, Sherry founded a bimonthly support group for cancer patients at her church.
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Joi Williams
Upon meeting her physician, the Williams knew they found Joi’s doctor. “He is so sincere, I trusted him completely. I call him my earthly angel.”
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