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Cancer
From a Partners Perspective
The phone call
It all started one random day, the day that I chose not to go to the doctor with her. We were virtually crossing paths on the highway when the phone rang telling me to pull over, the news was not good. What we thought was a simple bump turned into a rare form of cancer in the roof of her mouth. The prognosis was good, but surgery would be required followed by radiation. Healthy, active, the news was a shock to the system.
What follows are my images taken before, during and after. My way of coping with the challenges of supporting a partner going through the worst experience, knowing that other than being there — there was nothing I could do to make this better. So I did what I know best; i turned inward, shooting the events with my Monochrom. Here is my attempt to share my perspective of things with mostly images and a few words.
Surgery
Always a smile. The goal was to remove the tumor from the roof of her mouth without punching a hole through and into her nasal passage. Success with the Tumor, failure with the hole. A nasty quarter size mess of tissue opened up from the roof of her mouth. Recovery was going to be complicated.
phase II
We live 2 hours from the Cancer center and she is about to begin 6 weeks of treatment, 5 days a week. The winter from hell makes it impossible for us to make the commute so we choose to move into a hotel 4 days a week, returning home only on the weekends. The kindness of our friends makes this possible as 5 dogs try to figure out where we have gone.
muddy boots is her saviour
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