Most students who attend college attend for the sole purpose of furthering their education as it is a gate to most job opportunities and to increased knowledge and skills.
N.C. Central’s junior Chemistry major Luz Plumey is not your average college student. In December of 2011, Luz’s life really began to change. Luz has two sisters with illnesses, Dorca Plumey has Pseudotumor Cerebri and was hospitalized for the entire year of 2012 having to undergo more than 6 surgeries meanwhile her quality of life was deteriorating day by day. Luz also has an older sister, Maria Plumey who was diagnosed with cancer in her bones, known as Multiple Myeloma. Shortly after her diagnosis, Maria started treatments, having to do chemotherapy radiation more than …show more content…
In April of 2013, the doctors gave the Plumey family the news that the insurance company approved a stem cell transplant for Maria.
Her sister Dorca received the treatment for her condition and in August of 2013 Maria was able to get the transplant that had already been pre-approved. Favorably, Maria is now in remission.
Unfortunately, just two years later Luz was still having to deal with family related problems. On May 9, 2015, the day before Mother’s day, Luz’s mom passed away in California and just two months later, the family relocated to North Carolina. Searching the internet for hospitals with a similar clinic like California, Luz came upon the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill which had specialists in stem cell transplants. As a college student, most of us don’t have to deal with this sort of thing but Luz has remained focused in spite of.
“It was a short time period between the semester here at NCCU and my mom’s death but I always stayed positive and kept thinking to myself, “you want to make mom proud and your dreams come true,” Plumey
N.C. Central’s junior Chemistry major Luz Plumey is not your average college student. In December of 2011, Luz’s life really began to change. Luz has two sisters with illnesses, Dorca Plumey has Pseudotumor Cerebri and was hospitalized for the entire year of 2012 having to undergo more than 6 surgeries meanwhile her quality of life was deteriorating day by day. Luz also has an older sister, Maria Plumey who was diagnosed with cancer in her bones, known as Multiple Myeloma. Shortly after her diagnosis, Maria started treatments, having to do chemotherapy radiation more than …show more content…
In April of 2013, the doctors gave the Plumey family the news that the insurance company approved a stem cell transplant for Maria.
Her sister Dorca received the treatment for her condition and in August of 2013 Maria was able to get the transplant that had already been pre-approved. Favorably, Maria is now in remission.
Unfortunately, just two years later Luz was still having to deal with family related problems. On May 9, 2015, the day before Mother’s day, Luz’s mom passed away in California and just two months later, the family relocated to North Carolina. Searching the internet for hospitals with a similar clinic like California, Luz came upon the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill which had specialists in stem cell transplants. As a college student, most of us don’t have to deal with this sort of thing but Luz has remained focused in spite of.
“It was a short time period between the semester here at NCCU and my mom’s death but I always stayed positive and kept thinking to myself, “you want to make mom proud and your dreams come true,” Plumey