The mental toll that cancer takes on a patient is no joke

Keeping active kept Shima (second from right) going in her battle to live despite her cancer diagnosis. Photos: SHIMA HASSAN MARCY

FOR three days, after she received her breast cancer diagnosis, all Shima Hassan Marcy did was sleep and eat. She was depressed and all she could think about was that she was going to die. After all, she had cancer.

But never one to give up, Shima picked herself up and decided she wasn't going to go down without a fight.