I do not often remember the anniversary of my thyroidectomy. I do remember to take my replacement hormone daily, like I am menopausal, only not. Yesterday there was something on the radio about an executive at some bank or company that did something stupid who is 'retiring'. One reason cited was that he was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Now I was lucky in the sense that I did not have to undergo the radio-therapy after my surgery, but I have a close friend who did for different reasons, and then there is VW's story that I read too. So I hope no one takes offense at this, but thyroid cancer is the MOST curable cancer. In a medical sense, NBD. Of course as surgery, recovery, isolation during treatment, cancer anniversaries, etc. go, it is a big deal.
What really reminded me of this though, was that I just went to rub my neck and can BARELY FEEL MY SCAR. It has been a little over 4 years, and I can still see it faintly, sure. Right after I had surgery I met a man with much darker skin than mind who barely had a scar just months after his surgery. It bothered me because I took REALLY good care of mine - lotion, sunscreen, it never burned, etc. - and I figured this meant mine would always be super visible. It is true that these scars fade though. :-) Maybe a metaphor for all life's scars?
4 comments:
But I thought chicks dig scars??? Maybe I'm confused, but I tried to show my one scar off to a woman and I got arrested...
4 years! awesome.
I like the metaphor of the scar fading along with all of the scars on our lives. Some fade faster than others. Some may always be visible to us. Others may disappear entirely.
I think it is a very graceful metaphor. :-)
Ron, get a scar tattoo - kills two birds with one stone!
Danielle & Spark, one of those random thoughts that made a lot of sense!
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