Poet Bayveen O’Connell was diagnosed with a brain tumour in April and faces an operation in early November
Bayveen O’Connell from Dublin who is currently undergoing treatment for a brain tumour. Photo: Steve Humphreys
‘For unless I am myself, I am nobody.’ Virginia Woolf
I think we hold our sense of self in our minds and bodies, but what happens when they are weakened, under threat and undermined by sickness? What becomes of us when conditions such as cancer and growths such as tumours come as parasites to nest in us and overthrow our autonomy?