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Cancer Journal
"Looking at the pictures helped me relive that moment. Looking at the
pictures over and over again gave me a historical perspective. It was
horrible (the breast cancer). It's beyond belief how horrible it was. I
was filled with turmoil, upsetness. I was struggling to survive. The
pictures showed my pain, the struggle I had to keep up in real life.
There were so many little moments, that somehow I would have forgotten.
They would have gone into my subconscious.
These doctors are shooting in the dark- why treatment works in some people
and why it doesn't for others. It's real scary if it happens to you.
I'm sure it affects the cells on some level. It's the same looking at
pictures of the doctor, the nurse, my family. They took care of me. The
pictures gave me as the patient a sense of well being in that whirlpool of
horror. Millions of things go on every day. They go into our
subconscious. We draw from them. For breast cancer you take the
experience with you. The pictures brought it into reality. There's a
component of self forgiveness, through the photographing that you have to
do for yourself."
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