Woman finds poetry in her battle with brain cancer


Healthy alternative: Kaufman meditates during a yoga class at her home. She started writing poetry when a brain tumour made it hard for her to work, and her cancer is no longer treatable. — TNS

Judi Kaufman turns to poetry as brain cancer turns her life upside down.

Judi Kaufman was having a bad day. There were more and more of those now, 18 years into her battle against brain cancer.

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