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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Chemo....
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:51:37 -0400
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>> 
>> The many medical professionals on this list know exactly what happens to
>> people with cancer. Far too many of us also know because they have had to
>> confront this black daemon in their own lives. I was not one of these
>> people. I do not think those of us who have not had to deal with cancer 
>> face
>> to face really know anything about what happens and what it is like. I
>> certainly didn't. I had no idea how bad chemotherapy was and how sick my
>> wife would be. I took the picture because I wanted to point to how
>> chemotherapy has effected my wife and how it effects people who have to
>> subject themselves to it. There are two things I want to do. One was to 
>> make
>> a statement about how the Great Daemon effects people. I have done that. 
>> If
>> I had the volume turned up too loud, I apologize.

don't fall for the BS that words should not be needed with a photo--they are 
often necessary--here they would (and now have) added much dimension to the 
image you saw that morning.

I see it very differently now

a styrofoam head looks very different given your situation. It is very hard 
to encode it in a single image.

>> So, what my picture today today was about is this. If you have a camera,
>> and some, but not much talent, how to you use that to do something to 
>> make a
>> statement about cancer and to use to help the women who suffer from this
>> horrid disease.
>> 
>> Any ideas? This was my first attempt. If I got it wrong I appologize.
>> 

just look at the work of our brother steve barbour who has fought similarly

all the best to you both in the battle

ric





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