A subsequent scan found the disease had spread to her bones and was incurable. Following a mammogram, she learned she had cancer. Harrison eventually discovered a lump in her breast. Harrison's concerns over her discomfort are reflected in her illustrations, depicting meetings with doctors in search of answers. In the opening essay titled "What's Wrong With Me?" Harrison recalls the lingering, excruciating pain radiating in her hips and back, which made everything from carrying groceries to running a challenge. And so, by putting them in the light, giving them form was almost like taking some power back for myself." "To me, the things that are the scariest are the things in the dark, the things we don't talk about, the things we're trying not to look at. "When I was starting to make sense in my own head of what was going on with me, when I was trying to clarify and sort it out, drawing about it really was the best way for me to get the thoughts and the feelings out," Harrison said in an interview at her Toronto home. Her comic book-style illustrations inspired the short essays featured in her graphic memoir "In-Between Days." TORONTO - In sharing the gut-wrenching journey of her diagnosis and treatment for metastatic breast cancer at age 37, Teva Harrison let her images speak first - and then the words followed.
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