In December , I lost my daughter, Tanya (age 43), after her long, difficult and painful three year battle with breast cancer. With her type of cancer, she never really had a chance … but WHAT a fight. Endless rounds of debilitating chemo and radiation as well as two brain surgeries. She refused right to the very end to take any pain meds even though she was in absolute agony, stating that she didn’t want to be ‘drugged up’. She was a real trooper and perhaps I didn’t recognize it until now as I look back.
In going through her effects, she had a camera that she used only a couple of times before she became too ill. When I loaded the digital pics, it was eerie … because I was looking through her eyes at things she saw and liked. The first photo is of her, obviously taken by a friend, and is the first picture ever on the camera … the remainder of the photos were taken in late 2012 and early 2013.
I want to share those views with you and hope her fight is inspirational to others.
The last photo is one I took of her at age 3 in Atlanta ... who would have then thought that she would be gone so soon (40 yrs later)and with so much pain. I swear life is often not fair and hard to understand ...