Ned immediately made the short drive to Tampa and began his cancer treatments at Moffitt Cancer Center. He says it was an eye opening experience. "You have no comprehension of the number of people who have cancer, the place is constantly packed." During chemotherapy Ned received multiple blood transfusions and realized the profound impact of his own blood donations. "They think that the blood goes into a bag and then a black hole. It doesn't, it goes into people and takes care of them."
A year of treatments at Moffit helped Ned beat cancer the first time, but he had to rearm himself for another Leukemia battle in 2009. This time, his doctor's battle plan included a bone marrow transplant. "I received a call that they had found a match. This match happened to be surprisingly a ten of ten which was better than my two brothers were."
Thanks to the bone marrow donor, Moffitt doctors, and blood donors, Ned is able to have a second chance at life.