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I learned that youth doesn't make you immune to cancer as a kid when my best friend died from cancer. Years later as a teenager I started getting sick every morning and going to school late every day. I would tell the school I was sick and they would tell me you can't be sick everyday, as if it was an excuse or lie for being late. One teacher told me I would never amount to any thing simply for being late and in her mind probably lying. My doctor would tell me it was normal for teenagers not to be able to eat, to be nauseous around food, have hunger pains and losing weight. Got to the point where I felt like I was going to die and only then would people take me seriously. You really can be sick every day, be young and get cancer. The only reason I was eventually diagnosed with cancer was because my doctor wasn't in one day and I needed to see someone else, shows the importance of getting second opinions and finding doctors that listen. Now I want to use this experience for something good, and try and publish a book of these images to raise money for cancer charity and created a group of light painters who want to help, check out these amazing light painters.
If your interested in light painting check out this new light painting group Shining Light on Cancer. Thanks.
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I learned that youth doesn't make you immune to cancer as a kid when my best friend died from cancer. Years later as a teenager I started getting sick every morning and going to school late every day. I would tell the school I was sick and they would tell me you can't be sick everyday, as if it was an excuse or lie for being late. One teacher told me I would never amount to any thing simply for being late and in her mind probably lying. My doctor would tell me it was normal for teenagers not to be able to eat, to be nauseous around food, have hunger pains and losing weight. Got to the point where I felt like I was going to die and only then would people take me seriously. You really can be sick every day, be young and get cancer. The only reason I was eventually diagnosed with cancer was because my doctor wasn't in one day and I needed to see someone else, shows the importance of getting second opinions and finding doctors that listen. Now I want to use this experience for something good, and try and publish a book of these images to raise money for cancer charity and created a group of light painters who want to help, check out these amazing light painters.
If your interested in light painting check out this new light painting group Shining Light on Cancer. Thanks.