Cancer survivor receives healing at Jennie Edmundson's Advanced Wound Center

Nadine Boham survived cancer but still needed treatment for its aftereffects.

The Advanced Wound Center at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital stepped in to help the Council Bluffs resident with her wounds.

“The Advanced Wound Center is really an entire team that is brought together to help patients and people like Nadine heal from all different types of wounds,” said Mike Skradis, the center’s program director.

“We have specialized physicians who know all about wounds, we have specialized nurses and other support staff, and they bring all of that science to the patients in southwestern Iowa and eastern Omaha,” Skradis said.

Among the tools the center uses is hyperbaric oxygen therapy. HBOT is the tool the team used to treat Boham.

“The cancer was in my jaw and the lymph nodes my neck,” Boham said. “I went eight months not being able to put my tongue in my mouth. It was that swollen. I was riding the fence between Stage 3 and Stage 4 cancer.”

Surgery followed by chemotherapy and radiation cured her cancer. But the radiation burned her jaw bone. Her surgeon then recommended HBOT.

“My surgeon, the nurses, all of them have been amazing through the whole process,” Boham said. “I couldn’t have been blessed with a better team. If my story helps even just one other person, then I did what I was supposed to do.”

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