ATLANTA – At home in Alpharetta, Georgia, Julia York is studying for her nursing boards.
The 22-year-old, who recently graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), already has a job lined up.
She starts in July.
“I will be working at the hematology, oncology, bone marrow transplant unit at Children’s of Alabama,” York smiles.
Much of what York is studying, she has lived.
“I was diagnosed when I was 12-years-old with a brain tumor,” she says.
Within days, York began radiation at Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
“The prognosis for me was about 11 months, when I was diagnosed,” she says. “So, I wasn’t supposed to make it to 13-years-old.”
Fortunately, York didn’t know how bleak things were at the time.
Source: Georgia childhood cancer survivor becomes pediatric cancer nurse