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33rd Paterson Charity Ball Informational Video Part 1 - Fundraising
This video was shown at the 33rd annual Charity Ball for St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, NJ.
"My name is Leslie Ann Figueroa and I am in the seventh grade, I like to dance and sing sometimes. I got sick February 19th I thought I was really sick with a stomach virus but I have leukemia. I have a lot of friends here that pretty much have the same thing and they deal with it good. Some of them are quiet, so I try to make them not quiet. The doctors and nurses here at St. Joseph's tell me they're going to help me they're going to cure me, I have treatment for 2 more years now and then I'm done. The way the nurses and doctors talk to you it makes you feel very comfortable and I felt like I should do the same thing to make the other kids feel comfortable because I'm one of the cancer survivors." Bill Copek, Nurse Manager explains, "Leslie came in like a lot of leukemia patients do who had not been feeling well maybe fevers or so for a week or two and go one minute from the pediatricians office not feeling well and they draw some blood and the next minute being here and scared to death". Mrs. Figueroa talks about her daughter, "Well they did the blood work and it came back that she had leukemia and i was in total shock because that was one thing that i never expected to hear. My child having cancer, I was in total denial. The person who made it click into reality was Dr. Mennell. "What's so rewarding about this field is to be able to watch these patients get through these hard times and get them to the point where they're in remission they're coming back to see us it's been 5 or 10 years and they're doing great," says Dr. Mennell. Ken Woodbury is also a featured patient who had a heart attack at an antique show and was clinically dead found without a pulse. Hypothermic cooling was performed in the field for the first time ever in the state, lowering the body temperature to 92 degrees to preserve the brain while attempts are made to recussitate the heart. Woodbury left the hospital to live a full and normal life. "The best part of St. Joseph's is bringing together the vision of some fantastic doctors, the hard work and compassion of all the nurses that work at St. Joseph's to inspire the best care that is imaginable in this area, I am proud to be part of this inspired care," Said Dr. Rosenberg, Chairman of Emergency Medicine.
