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\n<\/TABLE>For Tawny Roeder, nursing has always been a calling.<\/p>\n

“You could call it a ‘burning desire,'” she said. “Or maybe just a really strong mother-hen instinct.”<\/p>\n

In the case of Roeder’s specialty, though, the burning desire had a very specific spark. <\/p>\n

Roeder, a lymphoma transplant case manager, was once a transplant patient at this very same medical center. So when she tells her charges to never give up hope, they can believe her.<\/p>\n

“Oncology would not have been the way I went,” she said with a smile. She was placed in the specialty in her senior year of nursing school – only to be admitted to the very floor she was doing her preceptorship on.<\/p>\n


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\n“I had nothing but exceptional care here at UNMC when I was a patient – and I knew that someday, I wanted to be a part of providing that care.”
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Roeder was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2008. <\/p>\n

“I was just finishing nursing school when I was diagnosed and had my initial treatment in Sioux City, Iowa,” she said. “When I found out I would need a stem cell transplant I moved to Omaha. It has been my home ever since.”<\/p>\n

Roeder didn’t take time off as she was undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n

“Actually, studying for the boards kind of distracted my mind,” she said. “And there’s lots of time to study when you’re getting chemo.”<\/p>\n

By the time Roeder had crushed her cancer, regrown her hair and passed her boards, she knew what she wanted to do with her life and career.<\/p>\n

“It was a dream of mine to be in a position where I could be the one helping,” Roeder said. <\/p>\n

As a case manager, Roeder works with Philip Bierman, M.D., to help patients struggling with lymphoma who are undergoing stem cell transplants.<\/p>\n

“If I can help even just one person, give them hope, it’s a life-changing event,” she said.<\/p>\n

It’s a chance to ease the hardship and fear of others, such as Kendra Glass, a transplant recipient and one of Roeder’s patients.<\/p>\n

“She gives me hope, when I see someone who’s had a transplant and is walking around doing well,” Glass said. “And has hair!” <\/p>\n

Helping people through what may be the most frightening experience of their lives is “a wonderful thing,” Roeder said. <\/p>\n

“Everyone going through cancer wants someone to talk to who has gone through it and is doing well,” she said. “I had nothing but exceptional care here at UNMC when I was a patient – and I knew that someday, I wanted to be a part of providing that care.”<\/p>\nxuLQ j<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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