Pretending Normal

By Adriana ESF

“I took this photo while getting ready to go out and meet a friend about 5 months into my chemotherapy treatment. It captures my attempt to look and feel normal – draw on my ever fading eyebrows, add mascara to the little eye lashes I had left. I still enjoyed socialising during chemo, but despite the disguise, I never felt normal, and chemo was always on my mind. I was out there pretending normal whilst full of ‘poison’.”