A woman who battled through cancer and diabetes has given back to those at the Bermuda Hospitals Board that helped her.

Sherlyn Swan-Caisey on Wednesday donated $1,300 to the Oncology and Dialysis units at the hospital, raised at a fundraising event in November.

“I go to dialysis and oncology, and these guys have taken good care of me this last year,” she said.

“I am a singer and a poet, so I held a little event to raise some funds. It won’t build a new unit — I’m working on that — but it’s a little something.

“It just feels good to do a little something and share at Christmas.”

Ms Swan-Caisey remarked that she had seen every floor of the hospital as a result of her medical challenges, which included being diagnosed with diabetes in 2001 and multiple myeloma, a rare form of cancer, in 2011.

“This hospital is amazing. It’s amazing the number of people who they save.

“I wouldn’t be standing here, posing for pictures and looking cute if it was not for the hospital and these departments.”

Norma Smith, Director of Medical Surgical Services, thanked Ms Swan-Caisey for her donation, saying that the funds would benefit the patients in the departments.

“What’s great about it is nurses tend to want to use these kinds of donations to bring comfort to patients,” she said.

“I can guarantee that whatever they do with this to benefit the department will benefit the public, and give them a lot of joy.

“I saw her go through all of her experiences with us.

“We did a lot for her, but without her spirit and the will she had to get through it, she wouldn’t be standing here today.”