WORLD CANCER DAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Writing and photography have always gone hand-in-hand for me, although I was a journalist for most of my earlier career and long before creating images became my main ‘job’. Words and images have both had a part to play in my cancer journey and continue to be the tools that are helping me to navigate my way through the emotional, step-by step, and at times frustrating, process of recovery. On World Cancer Day 2022 (Feb 4), I put pen to paper to create a thank-you to the friends and family who supported, encouraged, comforted and cared for me throughout my treatment. Even though I have survived, the confronting and devastating journey through chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy was, at times, just as hard for them to endure as it was for me. This poem is for them.
