SVTAGS - Eric Drew FoundationSilicon Valley Technology, Art, Green & Sustainability talk show with host and Executive Producer Heather Durham. Episode guest is Eric Drew the founder of the Eric Drew Foundation, a non-profit charity organization to help all Leukemia patients with the financial and emotional hardships faced by people suffering from this disease. This has to be one of the most amazing people I have ever met. Eric Drew is a leukemia and identity theft survivor. He was a normal six foot tall guy traveling the world for business. Came home and wanted to settle down, maybe have a family. After a year at home, while giving blood was normal in that year, this one time they said something is wrong. He went to Stanford and they sent him home to die, six moths maybe. He amazingly had a half sister that he only met a year before and she was a half match for bone marrow. It did not take and they wanted to send him home again, but this time he was in Seattle. Now, as he was determined to find a way to live, he found out someone there at the hospital was stealing his identity- and no one believed him. He got himself out of bed, got the evidence he needed for the police and the FBI to get involved… and the rest, as they say, is history. His case was the first ever tried under the new HIPAA laws, the first case to be won. He has survived also as the first ever double stem cell transfer.
