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

23Carried away in a stretcher

Her body was wrapped in white and strapped to a stretcher as she was carried away. This was a depressing moment for me and I know how a reader would be reacting too but this is what we can do to create awareness of a disease that kills just because we pass off the little changes in our bodies thinking it to be a minor malady.

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24This is cancer

Not only can it be a traumatic ordeal for all, this is the face of cancer for a patient who has to keep track of an umpteen number of medicines.

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25“Photographing them seemed to be the natural way for me to be with them and process what was happening.”

Perhaps Nancy had her own reasons for doing this. It was her way of wanting to remember her parents. She made three decisions about the project. That it would be in black and white, she wanted only content, no lights or distractions, and she decided to disassociate herself and shoot as if shooting strangers.

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26She wanted to shot in black and white

Nancy wanted to take the photographs as a neutral witness to the last years of their life together.

“I forgot they were my parents and then I realized there was a lot I was seeing; the situation was happening because they were sick, but to me, the story was more about their relationship with each other, and our family, and love and understanding. I realized many stories of those with cancer focus entirely on the one who is sick but I found that our story was also about our whole family, as everyone felt the diagnosis.” She has finally published her book “the Family Imprint” about the cancer family.

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27No more a home

This is what most people feel who have lost their parents and it proves that families make a home without which it is just a house. That is what Nancy said “it was no longer a family home” it was just a house with four walls. It may only become a home again with a new family who will make their own new memories.

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