When artist Amy Grantham started a blog to keep friends and family updated about her status as she battled breast cancer, she didn’t really expect many people to read it.
“The blog began as a way for my five friends to go check up on me and see what I was doing without me having to re-live sometimes difficult emotional choices or situations that I was in each day,” Amy said. “So, I would write every single day starting the day I was diagnosed until the very end of my treatment, about what I was feeling, what I was going through, people I met along the way. I photographed the whole journey.”
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Even though the blog was started just to keep friends and family informed, Amy said eventually she realized how important it was for people to see what cancer was really like. “At the time, I didn’t see a whole bunch of cancer blogs, especially not younger women who were going through this particular disease,” Amy said. “So, it was important for me that people, if they could handle it, could go to my space, hear that I’m doing OK, and processing things as best as I could. But also see the ugly reality of what it’s like to have a disease like this.”
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