Four years ago, Ann-Marie Servos was a successful career woman planning her wedding when she was diagnosed with leukemia. Doctors told her they didn't expect her to last the weekend.
Just one day after her rushed wedding at the hospital chapel, she started chemotherapy, and her name was placed on a nationwide registry seeking a match for a bone marrow transplant. During this low point in her life, Servos was ready to give up numerous times. But she credits her dedicated nurses for pulling her through those dark times.
She recalled asking a nurse whether God wanted her to fight or not.
"And I'll never forget her saying, like, 'No, you fight. You fight with everything in you. You fight,' " she remembers. "And she was also the first nurse that found out that they had a match for me. And she danced down the hallway, praising Jesus, and just said, like, 'You're going to be okay. You're going to make it.' "
Although she recovered, Servos was unable to have children, so she decided to adopt twins. This was another big turning point for her.
"I believe that God saved my life," she said. "There is no clinical reason for me to be alive, for me to be doing so well, other than that he saved my life. And I don't think he saved my life to do commercial real estate deals."
So, she gave up her real estate job and went back to school to become a nurse.
"I am going to pay homage to those who took care of me. And I am going to be the person I think God expects of me. Because I've gotten this amazing gift, and I am going to give back," she said.
This past month, she walked across the stage during UTMB Nursing School's celebration of its 125th graduating class and received her diploma.
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