PATIENT S TO R Y My Niece Is My Hero By Terri Kreider
At the young age of 28, my
I watched as this very athletic
is one hell of an amazing lupus
niece, Rebekkah Dee… Bekkah
(rising soccer star) young lady
warrior!!
or Bekks, as I call her, has gone
found herself unable to do the
through more medical proce-
things she loved and enjoyed.
After high school, Bekks went
dures, tests, hospital stays, and
Throughout middle & high
on to college, attending Wright
near-death moments than I
school Bekkah was in and out
State University to obtain a
have at my ripe ol’ age of 61.
of hospitals for either testing,
nursing degree. She was called
procedures, or long-term stays
to the nursing profession be-
Bekkah was in grade school
because of her illness. She has
cause of all the amazing nurses
when she started having medi-
never once given up, though.
who cared for her. Bekkah graduated with a BSN and RN
cal issues that the doctors could
degree in December of 2017.
not pinpoint a reason or cause
Her spunk, her determination,
for. When she was 10 years old,
and her fight to not let the dis-
the doctors finally had a diag-
ease win is so inspiring! I cannot
After a few years of working at a
nosis. Lupus. LUPUS!!! She was
even put into words how much
local hospital after graduation,
only 10 years old!!
I admire who she is… besides
COVID hit. As a lupus warrior,
being my awesome niece, she
she couldn’t risk catching COV-
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