Pam: My happy place

Pam is a woman in her early 50s with a tattoo of a small campfire and the words “we still fit.” She chose the location so that she can see it whenever she is using her right arm or hand. The tattoo is a message from her late husband who died from cancer on January 26, 2021. The tattoo is in his handwriting, which has been taken from a message, and includes a campfire because Algonquin Park was their happy place. The tattoo makes her think of her husband, Rob, and helps her “remember the years that [they] had together and that, no matter what, [they] will always ‘fit.’”  When describing the tattoo, Pam says, “It is a comfort for me to see the tattoo when I look down. It is like a break in my day when memories of Rob drift in and it almost always makes me smile, and a strange sense of calm washes over me.” Pam loves her tattoo and shares that both of her children also got memorial tattoos to honour their father. They got their tattoos on “his birthday as a tribute to him.”