Hollye Jacobs, RN, MS, MSW, is a palliative-care nurse and social worker based in Santa Barbara, California. She is a breast cancer survivor and author of The Silver Lining: A Supportive and Insightful Guide to Breast Cancer (Atria). TheSilverPen.com
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Video Chat with Hollye Jacobs Hollye Jacobs, RN Hollye Jacobs is a speaker, nurse, social worker, child-development specialist and…
Bottom Line/Health: All right, so let's talk about your treatment a little bit. How did you pick your medical team?…
Bottom Line/HEALTH: Right, perfect. So what did you want to hear from people after you told them? Sometimes people don't…
Bottom Line/HEALTH: What happens if, in spite of all your best efforts, it goes badly? Your daughter was four or…
Bottom Line/HEALTH: Silver linings, you know, it’s awfully hard, and you’re a very positively centered person. Not everybody is so…
Bottom Line/HEALTH: One of the hardest things is for people to ask for help—and it’s one of the most overwhelming…
Bottom Line/HEALTH: You're a great communicator. It is your job to communicate as a hospice nurse, as a palliative care…
Bottom Line/HEALTH: Now, you've gotten diagnosed, and that's emotionally devastating, frightening, overwhelming. I can't even imagine all that you were…
Bottom Line/HEALTH: So let's talk about children, because that's really frightening, to talk to your children. What's your strategy and…
Bottom Line/HEALTH: How did you handle chemo-brain? Hollye Jacobs, R.N.: Chemo-brain is so frustrating—everybody I talk to is disillusioned by…
Bottom Line/HEALTH: What was your secret—so you said you got a lot of nausea—what was your secret to managing nausea…
Bottom Line/HEALTH: What lessons did you learn about insurance coverage and breast cancer? Hollye Jacobs: This is something I actually…
When a serious medical diagnosis comes into a family, children deserve to know. Silence is not golden. Discussing illness candidly…
