'Cancer Winners'

Ms. Coursey-Prah, a radiologist from Piedmont Fayette Imaging Center, spent 5 months stitching a bold statement of hope for cancer survivors. She got hand tracings from survivors and used them to create a folk art quilt, 7 ft. wide and nearly 7 ft. tall. Dozens of wool hands, each containing first names, dates of diagnoses, age at diagnoses and birthplaces are on a background of 2-in. multicolored squares and one larger square. The squares are in the shape of a heart in the center. She got 72 hand drawings, including 10 men and 4 children with the youngest being 1 yr. old. The quilt was auctioned at a fund-raiser for the American Cancer Society and was won by Fayette Piedmont hospital where it now hangs under plexiglass at the Women's Imaging Center. The contributors, such as one mother and daughter, can go up to it and put their hands in their wool 'hands'. This must give hope to so many with cancer and what a nice legacy for those who have survived cancer.