I began using comics to explore my experience of life after my cancer diagnosis in the summer of 2023, while I was waiting for my first CT scan results. I was told I would get my results in two weeks, but it actually took nearly two months. This period of time was extremely stressful, and the drawings I did are full of the cocktail of fear I was feeling at the time.





Why didn’t I know I was ill?
I drew this rough comic a year and a half after getting my diagnosis. I spent a lot of time thinking about how unwell I had been before I was diagnosed and was trying to get my head around how I’d not realised how ill I actually was.




Blockage
A two page comic depicting a painful blockage/complication with my ileostomy.
