Cancer

I used this same illustration for IF's theme (The Blues)...My sad angel is grieving and praying for those who have either had cancer themselves or have loved ones with cancer. I lost my daddy to cancer when I was just 18.

Cancer: Brain Tumor, first thoughts

Cancer: Brain Tumor, first thoughts, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. Click iamge to view larger. I am sorry to seem so morbid with my entries so far on this topic. I have this to say about that: there are many cancer survivors who are doing quite well. Cancer does not have to be a death sentence. What this is all about is that I have a brain tumor. However, it is nonmalignant and slow growing. But when I first found out about it, I was really freaked.

Cancer: In the aftermath (Mourning)

Cancer: In the aftermath (mourning), by Mary Stebbins Taitt. My father died of cancer, my sister-in-law died of cancer, two of my best friends died of cancer. I am deeply sorry. For them, and me and everyone else! Click image to view larger.

This is a water-color pencil drawing/painting on real paper. (I have been working digitally lately, for the most part), It was taken from a photo of a stranger at the Ren Fair, so if it's you, I apologize. And I can send you the original painting if you want it. I am imagining him standing all in black at the graveside of someone he loved, as I have seen people do in the past.

cancer

The challenge this week on Monday Artday is "cancer".
Hippocrates was born around the year 460 BC on the Greek island of Kos. He became a famous physician and is regarded as "the father of medicine." Hippocrates described several kinds of cancers. He called benign tumors oncos, (Greek for swelling), and malignant tumors carcinos, (Greek for crab or crayfish). This name probably comes from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumor, with a roundish hard center surrounded by pointy projections, vaguely resembling the shape of a crab. He later added the suffix
-oma, (a variation of Greek for swelling), giving the name carcinoma. Since it was against Greek tradition to open the body, Hippocrates only described and made drawings of outwardly visible tumors on the skin, nose, and breasts. Hippocrates believed that the body was composed of four fluids: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. He believed that an excess of black bile in any given site in the body caused cancer. This was the general thought of the cause of cancer for the next 1400 years. However, he had a belief that still holds true today.
Cancer sucks.