“Portraits Of Hope”: story of cancer survivors features Jay Bouvier

Earlier this year, William Brock, a cancer survivor, has released a new book called “Portraits of Hope”/, which documents the story of his own and also of other cancer survivors and those, who accompanied them on their journey to being cancer-free. The proceeds of the book are going to the William Brock Fund for Research and Education into Blood Cancers and also to the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital and the readers of the book will be able to get an insight on the emotional stories of people like Saku Koivu, John Gomery, Paul Henderson and also Jay Bouvier.

Jay Bouvier, brother of Simple Plan’s lead singer Pierre, has been diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma cancer in 2006 but thanks to medical treatment and transplant of bone marrow with their other brother Jonathan being the donor, Jay was officially declared cancer free in 2007 and has been healthy ever since. If you want to know more about Pierre’s story, I encourage you to read his very in-depth blog about his brother’s disease he posted on MySpace in 2008.

The feeling of being so trapped and having no way how to help his brother, has inspired Pierre to write a song about it – Save You, released on the self-tiled Simple Plan record in 2008. Both Jay and Pierre’s Dad have been a part of the music video for the song as well.

The book “Portraits of Hope” doesn’t include only Jay but also his two brothers – Pierre and Jonathan, and even mentions the lyrics to the song “Save You”. You can check out some of the pictures of the three Bouvier brothers that are featured in the book in the gallery:

Currently, the book is being given for free to the cancer patients and the employees of the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital in Montreal, Canada, signed by some of the featured cancer survivors, including Jay Bouvier.

For more info about the book, go to portraitsofhope.ca.