Tampa Area Nurse Shares Inspiring Journey from Cancer Survivor to Caregiver

A Tampa area nurse and a familiar face to Good Day recounts her story of being diagnosed with cancer and being taken care of at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital and how she's now paying it forward as a nurse there. **ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. ** - Lindsey Belcher wears many hats on the seventh floor at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital: patient dance partner, dinnertime helper, friend, and registered nurse. The seventh floor at All Children’s is the hematology and oncology floor of the hospital, filled with kids that have blood disorders or cancer.

Registered Nurse Lindsey Belcher has worked there for a year. She says nurses here need to be flexible. "It takes a funny person. It takes a lighthearted person, but it also takes a serious person and a critical thinker. It takes somebody who can sort of be all of those different attributes for these families at their most vulnerable times," she says.

The daughter of FOX 13's Charley Belcher, Lindsey has a unique story that brought her to work at the hospital. In addition to all the hats she wears in her job, she wears one that will never come off: cancer survivor. She was diagnosed with leukemia on Christmas Eve of 2007 after weeks of having strep throat and being extremely tired. "The moment that sticks out the most is my dad and I went to go see Alvin and the Chipmunks, and I slept through the entire movie," she recalled. "And then he was like, okay, we need to figure out what's going on.

" It was the beginning of a two-and-a-half-year fight that unfolded at All Children’s. Lindsey was only seven years old when she began chemo treatments in the form of pills, spinal taps, and transfusions. "But I never realized the intensity of the situation. It was never that I could die. It was, 'oh, I'm sick and I'll get better.

It's just going to be hard,'" said Lindsey.