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Jennifer,
This is such an incredible story about your strength and resilience and healing through the power of art. I cried reading your story.
Without my art I don’t know where I’d be. It helped me prepare for my second lobectomy last May. And then enhanced my recovery as I healed.
I’ll never have a normal life but as long as I have my watercolors I’ll cope with less anxiety and more peace.
So glad to connect with you!
Maggie
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@maggiehart Thank you. I share your love of watercolors. I'm glad that watercolor can bring you peace.
If you go back to this post in the last link, you can watch me paint when I was 11 months post op from my spine surgery and getting ready for my one year follow up appointment. I actually cried painting this portrait because of what it meant to me to be able to do this and the gratitude I have for the surgeon who made this possible. Some of the time, I was singing as I painted.
I am a Sharing Mayo Clinic story too.
https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/using-the-art-of-medicine-to-overcome-fear-of-surgery/
Another story in my own words.
https://realismtoday.com/watercolor-creative-healing/
Time lapse video of the portrait in this post.
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/222044/
Glad to have you here, Maggie!
Jennifer