16 March 2010

she's a stitch

As some of you know, my mom recently had a bi-lateral mastectomy. And, you may or may not know that she is a wonderful, woman of God...

...and ornery as spit.

Here is an excerpt from a letter I received yesterday. It cracked me up.

"I saw the surgeon today. He asked why I hadn't pulled all the little tapes off my incision. There were probably 15-20 little strips of tape. The surgeon told me at my first appointment after my surgery, that they would fall off when they were ready. I have always dreaded pulling tape off my skin. So I told him they could stay there the rest of my life, I wasn't pulling them off. "Well, do you object to my pulling them off? I want to see if the incision is all healed." I said, "No, but I may kick you in the shins when I get off this table."

oh Peggy Lou...you are a stitch unto yourself...

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