Two-time cancer survivor shares her story to help patients and families [Video]

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) – Brett Wilson, a Charleston native, is sharing her childhood cancer story to help others who are fighting and their families.

“I was diagnosed as a young child at 22 months old with ALL leukemia,” said Wilson. “I was given a year to live, I went through 5 years of treatment, which included some radiation to my head with several sessions, and then I was in remission for a year and a half.”

She ended up getting non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at nine years old, and it wrapped around her throat, making it hard for her to breathe.

“I actually died twice,” said Wilson. “I didn’t understand it at the time until they were able to finally intubate me and kind of explain to me what happened.”

Wilson blue-coded twice, which means she went into cardiac arrest, and had to go through three more years of treatment.

All the years of …