Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Two words: SAVED MY LIFE! I was nearly dying at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston a room with three other patients while they figured out what was wrong with me: three very sick people with all sorts of guests coming and while, while I was immuno-​compromised. Say WHAT? The day they diagnosed me with stage 4A Hodgekin Lymphoma with ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ chance of cure vs. Survival rate, they gave me my first chemo treatment the next day. I had my bags packed in the morning. Now I couldn’t afford Memorial Hermann there or John Hopkins up north, but I have family in Nashville so I packed my bags and flew over. Went straight to the E. R, they asked no questions, put me straight in a clean room on a mylo-​suppression ward with such incredible precautionary measures I was amazed. Paperwork, payments, everything got done at no cost to me thanks to thier indigent charity programs and they didn’t miss a beat in my chemo treatments from day one. Had all my records transferred and biopsy samples and did thier own testing. Discovered I was a stage 3A NOT 4A and gave me ⁸⁵⁄₁₅ cure vs. Survival rate. That was another game changer. Needless to say in five months I have been admitted in the E. R six times. They assigned an infectious disease team, general medicine and my hemotology team all working together to fix me. Out of those six times, five times I was literally HOURS AWAY from imminent death and they pulled me out. After today I only have two more rounds of chemo so in a month I will be free, with a new healthy life by Gods will and I have a lot to thank Vanderbilt for. It is such a terrific institution u guys and the way they have always treated me brings tears to my eyes. I was a 28 year old man 3 feet into the ground heading even further down and they just pulled me out, dusted me off and gave me hope along with a (hopefully) New life.