Genetic Compositions

Members of the Bewan Blog: Here’s the stock you are made of…If you ever think you have an unbearable pain or suffering to go through, just think first of Lucile V.C.B. as I saw her this morning. Swollen thumb bursting red with a red line running up her wrist, she shuddered to even have air touch it. She forwarned the Physician’s Assistant who had told her it might hurt, that she was very tender --even from the time her Mother made her dresses and would accidentally prick her with a pin while adjusting seams.

I squeamishly asked her if she wanted me to wait outside (say“yes,” say “yes”). She said she might “holler”. Was that a yes? I knew that would be the coward’s way out. I actually thought of Linda’s innumerable visits to Mayo with Mother and seeing through the treatment of her eye, legs, foot, stomach, head, hmmm, you name it, she’s seen it, --procedure and treatment. So I stuck it out and Mother definitely stuck it out, three shots of anesthesia and some scalpel business I chose not to watch, but stayed for ---she made it through with several muffled groans and not one holler. She did choke up just before the doctor came in, telling me about the time Daddy rushed home from college when Camille was born. I almost lost it then, but whew, we both made it through the rest!

She’s all patched up now with an oversized thumb bandage and sleeping off the distress of the day. Thank you, in your own way, Mother for being 93 strong. We all carry a piece of it with us. ..right down to that cute little Riley as seen below.