"It's a story of survival and decisions. It's also a story with a happy
ending. The middle part was rough. You'll see what I mean. The
happy part is this: The 30 year old class president of the UW
School of Nursing has just graduated. And so begins his next
chapter of life. It's a lot better than some of the previous chapters.
"He's done it all himself," his father David told us. "He did this.
With grants, scholarships, hard work.
He just committed himself to a completely different path."
Wait until you hear the path he was on. It began 12 years ago. He
was just 18 years old, and living on the streets."
"I very clearly remember the feeling of waking up at
two in the morning under a church stoop in the rain, shivering and withdrawing
from opiates. Your bones hurt and your muscles hurt."
One day it hurt so much, he was rushed to Harborview Medical
Center. Eric Seitz was just 24 years old and dying.
Necrotizing Fasciitis, otherwise known as 'flesh eating'
bacteria, was consuming him. It was the bacteria from the injections.
"It was right on my hip and it spread down my entire
thigh."
It's called 'flesh eating' for good reason.
Read more at: UW Nursing graduate defies the odds | king5.com
Cheers!
Donna
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