Living Well with Serious Illness: JoAnn’s Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Story

Living Well with Serious Illness: JoAnn’s Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Story

“I wish I could have videotaped JoAnn in her first palliative care session so that she could look back and see how far she has come,” says Mark Curtis, an advanced practice registered nurse and palliative care specialist. Mark has been helping JoAnn—a woman in her sixties—deal with the symptoms and stress of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma since 2016. Today, JoAnn is well enough to help care for her grandchildren and take part in charity walks, but when she first arrived to meet with Mark, these goals seemed unobtainable.  This is JoAnn’s palliative care story.

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