BEACHWOOD, Ohio — For years, Beckham walked the halls of University Hospitals with a clear purpose: help cancer patients and their families find their way, physically and emotionally, through some of the hardest days of their lives.
What he didn’t expect was that one day, those same corridors would carry him through a life-saving journey of his own.
Beckham’s account is part of cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer’s Health Care Stories series, which highlights reader-submitted experiences across Northeast Ohio — stories that, taken together, reflect the compassion, skill and heroism of the region’s health care community. To protect privacy, contributors are identified by pseudonyms…