right now i don't really have words. an incredible, smart young woman i'm friends with - that i met thru a former workplace - is rapidly receding from life.
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Liz & the last drink I'll ever buy her |
in the two years she found out she had stage 4 cancer, she has turned herself into a writer, crafting words around all the gory, disgusting & difficult things that cancer delivers... & how bodies fail. with her quick wit - having learnt so much about cancer, organs, treatment & operations - she has been able to communicate this experience to the rest of her networks
https://skybetweenbranches.wordpress.com/
and wider
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/dying-young:-elizabeth-caplice/7439872
thru all this she has still been unapologetically, herself.
and yet i am wordless