In the age of COVID-19, cancer hospitals like New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering have been forced to reimagine how to care for their patients.
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She relearned how to walk in the halls of New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. When she finished treatment and left, she hoped the cancer was gone and she would never have to come back. But a few months later, the disease returned, requiring chemotherapy that drips for 48 hours every other week — a regimen she'll likely need in some form for the rest of her life.
Much of the day-to-day cancer treatment at Sloan Kettering paused when COVID-19 hit, and Paris drove to Atlanta to work from home with her family. Twenty-five days into her quarantine there, after family dinner and Jeopardy!, she began feeling sick to her stomach. Later that night, she fainted. She recalls being asked if she had a living will, and whether she wanted to be resuscitated."I hit the trifecta," Paris said.
"We were all feeling scared," said Dr. Jeffrey Drebin, the chair of surgery at Sloan Kettering."But there was a sort of a sense of mission, a sense of trying to continue our cancer care and to do COVID care for our patients, and to be part of the greater community."
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