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It could be said that the long and lonely recovery process led Karin to regress--to be silly, childish, playful. Here, she tries to catch a Goldfish cracker in her mouth. She missed.

"Our minds were rarely sad. We strongly believed and often reminded one another that sadness did not fight cancer. Perhaps the best reminder to both of us and to everyone that was affected by the situation, were our frequent displays of silliness, our capacity for normal behavior under abnormal circumstances." - Karin Weidenhammer

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Image Size: 3551x2367 / 8.0MB; leukemia cancer clinical documentary Thomas Jefferson Hospital dying death struggle survival funny blood acute myelogenous leukemia AML triumph ward hospital love sickness sick ill illness patient stem cell transplant bone marrow transplant disease Karin Weidenhammer silly silliness playful childish play regress regression recovery humor
Contained in galleries: "Funny Blood", Documentary

It could be said that the long and lonely recovery process led Karin to regress--to be silly, childish, playful. Here, she tries to catch a Goldfish cracker in her mouth. She missed.<br />
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"Our minds were rarely sad. We strongly believed and often reminded one another that sadness did not fight cancer. Perhaps the best reminder to both of us and to everyone that was affected by the situation, were our frequent displays of silliness, our capacity for normal behavior under abnormal circumstances." - Karin Weidenhammer