Diana Cejas was working as a resident physician at a New Orleans hospital when doctors discovered a cancerous tumor on her neck.
The tumor had grown larger and more painful over time, eventually metastasizing to her lymph nodes. After Cejas had a successful surgery in July 2012 to remove the lymph nodes, she thought that was the end of it — but her troubles were far from over. Twelve hours later, she woke up in the intensive care unit on a ventilator. A stroke had paralyzed the left side of her body.
