Part One Diagnosis Learning that I am going to die What’s Wrong with Me? I Can Feel It In My Bones. Now that she feels ‘other’ as a result of having a terminal illness, she finds her artist’s understanding of how negative spaces are important to the impact of visual imagery equally applicable as an approach to her writing. The author plays with the idea of ‘in-between’ as both a visual-arts and experiential concept. The book concludes with a list of resources that the author has found most helpful and is most appreciative of. Each ‘entry’ has its own heading and cartoon or illustrations as an integral feature of how the author communicates her experiences and thoughts. Each chapter is a series of short musings on related topics. The rest of the book is organized into thee parts with three chapters in each. The book begins with a Forward and a Prologue. “I hope that by talking about some of the hard stuff, I am helping other people who are living with cancer or other serious illnesses (and their caregivers and supporters) to start conversations with peers and professionals, with their friends and family and with their doctors.” How the Book is Organized Text and images are used to explore all the challenges and emotions that have arisen for the author in her new reality. As a result of therapy, the author uses her artistic talents to tell her story in a unique series of comic strips and complimentary writings. Living in Toronto, Canada at the time of her diagnosis, she had the good fortune to be in the care of an oncology team that included a psychiatrist.

Her approach to dealing with this serious health crisis was to work on her mind as well as her body as part of her process of making sense of and coping with what was happening to her. Teva Harrison was diagnosed at 37 years of age with metastatic breast cancer.

In-Between Days by Teva Harrison