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

18Nancy treated her mother as a normal mum

The worst thing to do to a cancer patient is make him feel helpless. Treat them normally like every member of the family. Laugh with them cry with them but never weaken their spirit to live every last moment of life.

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19The project drew Nancy closer to her mother

The cancer family project drew Nancy closer to her parents she says. She would often read to her mother and was always there giving her that love and support in her last days of her life.

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20Nancy describes it as surreal

Nancy described the entire two years as a surreal experience for her.  Perhaps it might have just flown by and the fact that her parents are no more would make her all the more think if life was just a dream.

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21The family with mum together

No one likes talking about death but it is such scenes like this that helps us to truly understand the value of life  the gift of “once in a lifetime’ is even more profound than humans could ever imagine, yet we never really value relationships and the good things of life that come once in a lifetime. We use life for hurt, war, fights in families, and every possible negativity there is.

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22Laurel passes away

Just a day before the anniversary of her Husband’s death, Laurel passed away. She had gone to join Howie for eternity. Nancy described how everyone watched laurel’s chest as her breathing got more faint. When the doctor finally checked her pulse it was gone, there were tears of sadness and exhaustion all around, even tears of relief filling the bedroom that fateful afternoon.

This recalls to mind the exact same feeling just 8 years ago when me and my family were gathered around my father’s hospital bed holding his hand and watching the heart monitor as it beeped fainter and fainter and his chest movements grew less prominent till the beeping was heard no more. He died of gall bladder cancer three months after he was diagnosed in 2009. I know exactly what this moment felt like.

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