Leukemia nurse fulfills promise to her late mother
For Clinical Nurse Mikela Pettigrew, MD Anderson is more than a workplace – it’s a place of healing, hope and a promise fulfilled.
“MD Anderson is the reason my father is a cancer survivor, and it gave my mother five extra years,†she says. “It’s also the reason I became a nurse.â€
While she was a teenager, both her parents were diagnosed with cancer. Her mother, Christine, faced terminal kidney cancer, while her father,...
