Contemporary Issues, 3rd prize
Tippi Thole
01 February, 2003
Pamela Sullentrup has elected to undergo hospice care at home because she wants to die in her own bed, surrounded by those who love her. Pamela was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in January 2000, when she was aged 20. For three years she underwent several rounds of chemotherapy as well as radiation therapy and bone-marrow transplantation, but the cancer did not stay in remission. In January 2003 doctors recommended that she enter hospice care in her own home.
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