| Disease and It's Impact | |
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"I wish I knew how to ask for help, but I played the role still of being happy and nothing mattered and don't anybody worry about me, I am fine." |
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This image was drawn by a 63 year old
woman with severe lung disease-- the unfortunate consequence of many years of
cigarette smoking. She described the image as a picture of her lungs, surrounded
by the word "ow" to signify the pain she experiences. She described sorrow and
anger and said, "when the illness hit, everything got dark." |
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"I get lost by the appointment desk because I am in a wheelchair and they literally do not look up to see me." |
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| This image is how this patient feels the world see her. She seems outgoing--but she really likes to be alone. “Sometimes I shut people out of my life, just giving them little glimpses and then I get depressed." Collage-making was a new and exciting form of art expression for this woman coping with chronic lung disease. |
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"Some things came out in our discussions that needed to be said and talked about and this was a first for me to put my fears into words. It is hard to talk about death concerns but important." |
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This image shares the feelings of what it is like to have radiation everyday for many weeks -- lying there - just thinking and praying. "I prayed a lot just to get through it." the 53 year old breast cancer patient said as she described her drawing. |
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"When asked by friends why she was taking MS Contin: 'Why do you take that shit?' So I can walk! I have to walk. If I don't, I lie in bed. If I lie in bed, I die." |
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| Continue the Patient's Story... | |
| To the Family's/Clinician's Story... | |