Florist's love of nature helped her through cancer
Blooming Local florist Bodeine Nelson says being in her garden was a comfort when she was unwell. When Bodeine Nelson was in her 20s and battling cancer, her garden was a place of refuge. Diagnosed with first thyroid cancer and then a rare cancer known as Langerhans cell histiocytosis, she had to spend a lot of time in sterile hospital rooms. “I was going through a lot of chemo, radiation therapy, steroids – I wanted to be around nature. It’s the beauty and the new life.” Nelson, who is of Ngāti Kahungunu Ki Heretaunga descent, developed her own garden. When she was feeling a bit b...
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