Diana Rose

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$After running around outside the Southern Patriot Shop where her father was working inside, Diana collapsed to the ground to watch planes from a nearby airport fly overhead. Diana was diagnosed with Wilm\'s Tumor just before her fifth birthday. She underwent a 13 hour surgery to remove the tumor and one of her kidneys. Since then, she has had radiation and now chemotherapy almost every week. Shortly after hearing her diagnosis, Diana\'s father lost his job and the family will pay off her medical bills for the rest of their lives.$

$Diana is overwhelmed as a nurse plugs in another round of chemotherapy into the port embedded in Diana\'s chest.$ $Diana pouts after hearing a nurse tell her father she will have to get X-rays as the two walk down a hallway at Palmetto Richland\'s Cancer Center in Columbia.$ $Diana\'s cancer has left her trapped. The chemotherapy and surgeries make the hospital more familiar to her than friends or school. Her body betrayed her, but she is still a curious 5-year-old.$ $After her mother brushed her hair, Diana ran into the bathroom to look in the mirror. \$ $Diana\'s sister Laura, 1, attempts to crawl out of her playpen while her mother yells at Rebecca, 3, for running in the kitchen and her Dad pours water into a pot for a Ramen noodles dinner. Diana, her two sisters and her parents live in a two-bedroom trailer where the television is always on and Diana\'s mom Linda has trouble keeping control of the girls.$ $Diana\'s father promised her that he would shave his head when her hair started falling out from the chemo. Just two weeks prior, he said he didn\'t think he would have to because her hair was staying so thick. Just the day before, however, Diana had lost enough hair to fill up a sandwich bag in one day. So, with help from his wife, David buzzed his entire head bald. Other than this brief moment, Diana stayed nervously across the room while her mother buzzed her father\'s head. \$ $After belting out \$ $Still attached to an IV, Diana is unlike her rambunctious self as she lays groggy in her father\'s lap following her chemo port-removal surgery.$ $After six months of weekly chemotherapy, doctors determined that all traces of disease in Diana\'s thin body was now gone. She is placed under anesthesia to undergo a surgery to remove her chemotherapy port in her chest at Palmetto Health Children\'s Hospital in Columbia.$ $As she slowly comes out of anesthesia, Diana clasps onto her mother as the two are pushed in reclining chair through a hallway of the children\'s hospital to a private room.$ $Seven months after her initial emergency room visit which led to the discovery of a tumor in her kidney, a surgery to remove the diseased organ and six months of chemotherapy, Diana sits in her father\'s pickup truck in the hospital parking deck ready to leave the children\'s hospital as a disease-free 5-year-old.$

Diana Rose

Diana Rose was diagnosed with Wilm’s Tumor just before she turned 5-years-old. This is her story of recovery.

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Kendrick Brinson is a photographer based out of Atlanta, Georgia. She worked full-time as an intern and a staff photographer for newspapers for over three years after receiving a journalism degree from the University of Georgia in 2005. In 2009, she left the world of being a staff photographer to pursue personal projects and to work full-time with LUCEO Images. Her current photographic interests include exploring the Deep South, the rise and fall of the Memphis music scene, as well as aging in the retirement paradise of Sun City, Arizona, for which she received the 2011 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship, as well as a nod by Critical Mass and inclusion in the 2011 Noordelicht Photofestival. In the past year, "Sun City: Life After Life" has been displayed in eight gallery shows. Kendrick's clients include TIME Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Atlanta Magazine, AARP Bulletin, US News & World Report, and The FADER, among others.