Description This image is the cover of a booklet called Althea Re-Balances her Life after Chemotherapy for Ovarian Cancer, available at Amazon. The writer/painter/cancer survivor/artist created a second self called Althea, a saucy, outrageous young figure, who says and does in reaction to her cancer diagnosis. Althea means healer in Greek. Althea has feathers on her head because she has no hair after chemo. Teal is the ovarian cancer color. In this painting, Althea tries to balance on a very unstable high wire - a metaphor of what it is like to have cancer. You never know if you are free of it or if it will return!