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Joy S. McDiarmid Joy S. McDiarmid
Joy S. McDiarmid trained as a research writer. She held a number of posts in libraries, university, and private enterprise in Canada, the United States, and overseas during her thirty-year career in public relations and communications.
In 1990, Joy retired from her consultant practice and devoted herself to Voices in the Night, a series of audiocassette programs for cancer patients and family members. She co-authored three programs, including the six-part award-winning Breast Cancer cassettes.
In September 2001 she moved permanently to Victoria Beach, Manitoba, a vacation community on the eastern shores of Lake Winnipeg where she has spent each summer for sixty-eight years. She completed work on A Stony Path: Guidance for Women with Gynecologic Cancers, which was published in Canada in 2006 simultaneously with its release on the web for patients beyond the borders of this country.
In the past ten years, Joy and her companion, Josephine (Joey) Adamson, who is also her caregiver, have both endured treatments for cancers, all of which are in remission.
Joy and Joey enjoy their large gardens. They also take an active part in the community life of the village, which swells to a resort population of some 10,000 in a Victorian setting during summertime.
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