As she retires after 43 years of nursing at University Hospital, Nancy Jolliffe remembers one patient particularly well. Walter, from Rockford, Ill., had bladder and prostate cancer.
“He was 78 when I met him in 1988,” Jolliffe recalled. “I cared for him for four years.”
Toward the end of that time, she stopped in Rockford to see him on the way back from Chicago. That was not part of her job; she knew he was not doing well and thought she should visit.