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My husband and partner Stephen Wise, who started the Donna Karan Company, also had lung cancer
and at that time I was very lucky. He lived for seven years and my was very much at Sloan
Kettering and besides being mother, uh, fashion designer, wife, also being by the bedside.
And, as we all know, each one of us is going to be in a hospital in some day or another.
This is not something that any of us is not going to be involved with. So at that time
my husband said right before he died, he said "Donna, whatever you do, please take care
of the nurses" and I said "well, that's a pretty big piece of information". Why did
they take this position in life? They've been given a gift and that is to take care of people
but you cannot take care of anybody without taking care of yourself. And what are those
tools in care? The tools that we have found are universal care is yoga, reiki, aromatherapy,
nutrition, and palative care. Thank you so much for allowing us to be here in Kent State
and giving us the opportunity to prove to the world how important it is to care for
the most important people that I know and those are the nurses. Thank you very much.