An LA city fire captain will be sitting on the 'City of Hope' float at the Rose Parade in Southern California this Monday.
"I'm very hopeful for him," Krishnan said.
She's one of the doctors at City of Hope in Pasadena which is a world-renowned for cancer treatment and research. "The disease is controlled and that's sort of where he is," Krishnan."He's been stable like that for quite a while."The day after New Year's Day, they'll both be riding on the City of Hope Rose Parade float, along with eight other survivors.
Gatewood says this is so much more than just a pretty float in a parade. To him it's about a message that he wants to send the world. "Reaching out to every person that gets diagnosed or mis-diagnosed with something and doesn't know City of Hope is there," Gatewood said.It's what helped him endure the two stem cell transplants and cutting edge drug therapies that gave him a second chance to live and see his daughter go to college.As a fire captain he's saved lives on a fire truck his entire career.
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