An Indianapolis man has beaten both cancer and coronavirus in the last six six months and his neighbors threw a parade to celebrate when he returned from the hospital.Paul Lee,48, finished radiation for prostate cancer last November and in March he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and spent three weeks fighting it in the hospital.
Neighbors and friends pitched in to help his wife and eight kids, making dinner or paying for food delivery. When Paul was released and finally got to come home from the hospital, neighbor Karen Cumings helped organize a homecoming parade. "I said 'we've got to do something for Paul. We need to give him a ticker tape parade or something that's going to make him feel better and welcome him back home because he deserves it after struggling with cancer originally and now the coronavirus.
“It was overwhelming,” explains his wife,Julie. “But overwhelming in such a happy, happy way.”