A Daughter Lovingly Documents Her Parents Last Years Fighting Cancer Through Profoundly Touching Photographs

13Howie died in 2013

Howie Borowick didn’t last longer than his wife Laurel. He succumbed to the disease in Dec 2013, just a year after his diagnosis. He requested that he be buried in his favorite Giants football jersey, a pair of jeans and his HB baseball cap.

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14He wanted his own eulogy

In her project, Nancy writes that Howie never expected to live that long and he wrote his own eulogy which he had left in an envelope at home and gave instructions that it should be opened after his death.

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15Her mother was a strong woman

Nancy’s mother was a strong woman who always fought her disease in the most dignified manner possible. Breast cancer can be a killer disease if not diagnosed in time.

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16Cared for by family

In this photograph, Laurel is being changed into clean clothing by daughter Jessica, Paul her son in law and Evalina her caregiver. This was taken in December 2014.

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17If it gets me

This is what Nancy’s mom had to say “If cancer is what gets me, so be it. I already feel I have lived a pretty lucky life. I loved my parents. I love my siblings. I love my husband."

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