Auteur: Vivien Jones

Vivien Jones was born in Bristol, England and from teaching in East Anglia she moved, with her husband, to South Africa. Her experiences there were with cerebral palsied adults and in counseling. Many of those years were spent as a housewife, but later on, marketing, photography and conservation supported her life both in South Africa and England. It’s in these two lands that this story is told. What happens in people’s lives alongside a case of cancer? Chemotherapy deals with the tumor, and Vivien Jones tells what else goes on. Vivien’s varied life equips her to tell of a range of responses that are evoked when the cards that are dealt are tough. Cancer was new to her when it came uninvited into her family. To add to what the professionals were doing, she delved into other aspects of recovery, learning of medical procedures and nutritional needs and much more that would support healing and stimulate full recovery. Vivien has three children and four grandchildren and if you ask her about herself, that’s what she will begin by telling you.