Entry Category:
Photography/Digital/Art
NamePaisley Kavanaugh
Age Group (If you are a caregiver/family member please check Caregiver/Family Member)Youth: 13 - 20 Years of age
Artist Statement (include type of art, techniques & materials used, what it means to you)There are many faces to a Ranunculus flower. Each one is a different shape, size, color, and they even have different petals. Just like Craniopharyngioma patients. We all might have the same diagnosis, but we are all unique, different and beautiful in our own ways.
Bio (include your age, tumor type and date of diagnosis)My name is Paisley Kavanaugh and I am 16 years old. I collapsed at home on February 26th, 2014. I was soon diagnosed with a Craniopharyngioma brain tumor. We had to do emergency surgery to remove it. Then, 18 months later we found out it had regrown. We then chose to do proton radiation. I was eight when I was diagnosed with a brain tumor and today I am sixteen. I have had my brain tumor for as long as I haven’t.