Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.