A Public Service Announcement With Graphic Picture. *Beware*

If you’re my Twitter bud or Facebook friend then you know I’ve been asking for prayer for my sister and now that her surgery ordeal is over, she needs it even more because she’s got a lot of tough climbing ahead before she reaches the summit of normalcy.

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Fair warning.  I’m posting a very graphic picture but hopefully I’ve put it far enough down that if you decide you don’t want to view, you can stop before you get there.

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Sister aka Stepping Thru went to the dermatologist to have some spots checked on her chest.   Her account of what happened is posted here and here.

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Surgery was Tuesday afternoon and here’s what she looked like Wednesday when I visited her in the hospital.

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*warning!!  Very graphic picture*

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If you made it this far I’ll tell you a little more about this picture. They cut a “flap” out of her forehead and brought it down and twisted it so they could lay it over her nose.  They had to cut up into her hairline to get enough skin to cover her nose so yes……she has hair on her nose but only until they laser it off.  *sorry Sis, but that still cracks me up*  Also, when she touches her nose, she feels it on her forehead.  Seriously.   The inch and a half open part at the very top of her forehead is where they couldn’t stretch the skin enough to sew it together which only proves how unwrinkled she is.  I told her that was a hell of a way to get rid of what few forehead wrinkles she DID have!  *wink*

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I only post this (with her permission) to remind you all to see a doctor the minute you find a suspicious bump, lump, sore, rough patch or spot and for heaven’s sake…..WEAR YOUR SUNSCREEN!

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Now that the PSA is over I’ll leave you with a “before” picture so you’ll all see/remember how beautiful she is and will be again…soon.

Now hop on over to her place and leave her a message.  She’s still in a lot of pain but I think she’d like to know you stopped by.

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HAPPY TRAILS, Y’ALL …………and I love ya, Sis…….hairy nose and all!!!

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P.S.  After she told me about touching her nose and feeling it on her forehead, I had great fun telling her she should thank her lucky stars they didn’t take the skin off her butt. 

Maybe Someday We’ll All Live Our Lives Out Loud

HAPPY TRAILS Y’ALL

He Saddens Me & Makes Me Furious At The Same Time

Who’s he?  He’s my Dad.  I love him dearly but he’s stopped being “my dad” and now he’s someone I don’t know.

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These days he’s constantly looking for a fight.   He’s harder and less tolerant on his daughters (my sisters & I) than he is people who deserve his wrath.

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I can’t understand why he can be so nice and good to my ex-husband who abused me and took away all my self esteem, but if I bring that up he quotes the bible and tells me that’s not how God tells us to act.

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He called me tonight and started in on my son’s girlfriend and how she “laid him out” when he was leaving.  I kept asking what he meant by “laid out” he just kept raising his voice and repeating that phrase over and over.  I pinned him down and he said she thought he was a doddering old man who didn’t know anything.  I said “Did she say that?”  That made him furious and he started yelling at me and accusing me of not believing him.

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Huh?  All I was trying to do is understand exactly what happened.

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I asked again if she said it or if he just thought she was thinking it and he said he figured when he walked away she was thinking that.  Then he yelled “do you want to know what she said about you? Well, I’m not going to tell you.” *I wanted to say…are you 13?* I told him I didn’t care what she said about me and I didn’t want to be mad at anyone because like he told me, “God wants us to love everyone and forgive.”

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He was really yelling at me by then and told me he’d already been to church once that day and didn’t need another preachin from me.

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A case of Do as I say and not as I do perhaps? Whatever it is, it makes me sad.  I called him back to discuss this but he wouldn’t answer his phone so I left a message. He won’t call me back.  He’ll make me jump through hoops before he gets over this great injustice I’ve done to him because that man is never in the wrong.

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I love my dad, but he makes me crazy and breaks my heart.  I really really hope I don’t turn into him in my old age.  God help my children if I do.

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HAPPY TRAILS, Y’ALL