On my way home : a hospice nurse's journey with terminal cancer / Joyce Hutchison ; with a foreword and afterword by Joyce Rupp.

  • Hutchison, Joyce
Date:
[2017]
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About this work

Description

An account of the physical, emotional, and mental challenges of each step the author experiences during her own journey with cancer.

Publication/Creation

Notre Dame, Indiana : Ave Maria Press, [2017]

Physical description

xv, 111 pages ; 18 cm

Contributors

Contents

Foreword by Joyce Rupp -- Introduction -- My diagnosis -- Telling my children -- My chemotherapy treatments -- Cancer affects my marriage -- My summer without chemotherapy -- Preparing for my journey -- My chemo fatigue -- My emotional roller coaster -- Listen to me -- Keeping my sense of humor -- My health worsens -- What lies ahead for me? -- My evolving spirituality -- My daughter's diagnosis -- My loneliness -- My final chapter -- Afterword by Joyce Rupp.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (page 111).

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    RW.PM.6
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781594717291
  • 159471729X