Funny Stories About Serious Things: 5 Reasons Humor Is Important In Health Care

judetrederwolff
5 min readAug 9, 2021

When Kelli Dunham’s life partner was quite ill with metastatic ovarian cancer, she called her from the grocery store to ask if there was anything she could bring for her. “She responded ‘How about a quarter pound of the will to live?’” says Dunham. “I took a deep breath and said ‘honey, I’m at Trader Joe’s and you know how they are. They only had organic…

judetrederwolff

LCSW, CGP, CPAI, writer/performer, storyteller, storytelling coach. Improviser on team AURA at Magnet Theater in NYC. Storytelling coach for individuals & orgs