Former Wolfson Children's Hospital cancer patient becomes nurse

A young nurse is dispensing hope to young patients in the very place that saved her life.

Jessica Lewis, 22, beat cancer three times as a child, each time at Wolfson Children’s Hospital.

Lewis said it was her fight against the disease that inspired her to return to the place where it all began.

At 6 years old, Lewis was diagnosed with Wilms tumor, a form of kidney cancer.

Lewis didn’t just get it once or twice; the cancer came back three times.

After years of surgeries and treatments, Lewis' time at Wolfson Children’s Hospital was over.

“When I was in remission completely, I told myself I didn’t want to go back into the hospital," she said. "I didn’t want to work there, I didn’t want to think about it.”

But Lewis soon realized the place that saved her also inspired her.

She recently began her career as a registered nurse. She works side-by-side with some of the nurses and doctors who took care of her.

“Being at Wolfson was probably the best thing that could have happened to me," she said.

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