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Patient Stories Rochelle with her daughters, Anisten (left) and Kardyn (right)

When seconds count: How a mother survived a Christmas Day stroke
On Christmas Day 2020, Rochelle Swanson swung by her storage unit on her way to work to pick up a Christmas gift tucked away for her husband. All of a sudden, her left arm went completely limp.
Patient Stories Annika Vohs

Celebrating survivors: Annika Vohs' story
Having a cancer diagnosis at a young age changed my perspective on life and helped me realize the value of friendships and family.
Patient Stories picture of Lisa and Scott Williams

Celebrating survivors: Scott and Lisa Williams' story
Sept. 29, 2017, was the 19-year anniversary of Scott's diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and also marked the day that I was receiving my first chemotherapy treatment for my triple-negative breast cancer diagnosis.
Patient Stories Lana Hoffschneider

Celebrating survivors: Lana Hoffschneider's story
Let’s get some things straight. You have choices. Cancer doesn’t take the ability to make choices away from you.
Patient Stories Angela Keiser

Celebrating survivors: Angela Keiser's story
It was Sept. 1, 2009, when I received the call that I had thyroid cancer. I was just 26 years old and 14 weeks pregnant with my second child.
Patient Stories Before: My daughter, Miakoda, and I on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Europe during the Summer of 2019. After: April 2021

How medical weight loss works: The help is inside
After more than nearly 20 years of failed weight loss attempts, I feel like I’ve finally found what works for me.
Patient Stories Brandi, daughter Bailey, son Gatlin, and husband Justin

Patient receives cancer care that's above and beyond
For most of her adult life, the fear of cancer was always in the back of Brandi Dittmar’s mind. She had good reason.
Patient Stories Pictured are Pat and Mike Leibrandt of McCook, Nebraska.

Fund eases stress for families facing medical crisis
The Patient and Family Experience Fund assists hundreds of patients and their families each year by helping them with everyday needs such as lodging, meals, gas cards and transportation.
Patient Stories Ezra Fellers with mom Serena, dad Mark and big brother Anthony.

Fellers family thankful for their healthy baby after liver transplant
Ezra’s liver kept getting worse and worse despite medicine helping the other small hemangiomas shrink. He spent his entire life sick.
Patient Stories Jake Immink, Nebraska's first COVID lung transplant recipient

Nebraska Medicine performs state's first COVID lung transplant
Read the story of lung transplant recipient, Jake Immink, who has been hospitalized since November 2020.
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