Liesl Johnstone

Awaiting surgery while the actual disease was still unknown

Just hours before first surgery. November 2017

The night before I went into hospital, November 2017

My reconstructed hand eight months later, on the morning before wrist-release surgery

Liesl Johnstone with her daughter Clemency Johnstone, a fifth-year medical student who feared her mother may lose her arm. December 2017 - a couple of weeks after hospitalisation