Making a film wouldn’t be most people’s first port of call having just been diagnosed with the big C but for Joshua Isaacs, this was the perfect way to express himself. And so, My Left Hand is the story of a young father felled by epithelioid sarcoma, a cancer so rare that Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York, which specializes in rare malignancies, saw only 16 patients between 1982 and 1995. But more than that, it is a valiant effort to make spiritual sense of his suffering.
Six years after the cancerous lump was removed he found himself once again having to battle the illness. As well as naturally contemplating what his future holds, he explores his emotions, doubts, fears, and faith in God and Judaism as he endures chemotherapy, radiation, and the amputation of his left hand.
Beyond darkness and desperation we have all come to associate with the word cancer, the film ends by ultimately celebrating life, something there can never be enough of.
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