“Please take him. Prove me wrong! That’s all I want—prove me wrong!”
After several days, Nicole finally set up a doctor’s appointment.
“Honestly, I wrote it off. I really thought she was being kind of an alarmist because I didn’t see anything wrong with him. Then that night the doctor himself called and said we got the results of the blood tests and you need to go right to [Children’s Hospital].”
Nathan was diagnosed with leukemia that night.
He immediately began treatment, and has been fighting like a champ through months of chemotherapy and radiation. Today, the 6-year-old is in remission, but Nicole says that Nurse Patti truly saved her son’s life.
“If it weren’t for Patti pushing as hard as she did, I don’t know that my son would be here. That’s the honest-to-God truth.”
Nicole can’t even begin to describe her gratitude for Patti and her persistence, but as a start, she nominated the school nurse for the America’s Greatest School Nurse award, which will be awarded on May 5.
Colls Public Schools
Nathan hasn’t been able to return to school this year because his immune system is compromised, but he’s got a special place in Ms. Kathy’s class, and Nurse Patti’s heart.
She says that knowing she helped save Nathan’s life has her feeling “humbled, thankful, grateful for being that person at that time.”
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