NeuroNote 2
I read an article from Sioux City Journal called “From high school to nursing home: 20-year-old learns to cope with fatal disease”. The article talks about Desiree Buettner, a 20-year-old girl who has juvenile Huntington’s disease and how she is learning to cope with her disease in Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare. She was diagnosed with HD when she was 18 years old and moved into the nursing home by the time she was 20. Dawn Young, the director of nursing services at Careage Hills, asked Desiree to create a bucket list which landed Desiree on a plane to Disney World with her nurse, Ashley Curtis. The healthcare team at Careage Hills, as well as some other resident’s family members, have taken Desiree under their wings and treated her as family, and because of that, she has grown to like being there. I chose to read this article because it is what we have currently been focusing on in cla...
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