Anjelina Jolie Makes it Look Too Easy

I spent a lot of years going to AlAnon. It saved me, gave me the tools to grow and thrive. I used to judge Scarlet O'Hara for, "I'll think about it tomorrow". Everyone thought she was a terrible person. But she could have started AA. "Live One Day at a Time".
I got ahead of myself, as I mentioned Friday. Those photos of where lymph nodes were removed sent me soaring into the unknown future, got me out of the present, sent me into a tailspin.
Anjelina certainly did not have any nodes removed, no need. But still, the photos of her make it look like a double mastectomy, reconstruction surgery is no big deal. It is a big deal, Scary Stuff. Don't think about it now. Too much info. Terror in my beating heart. Especially the lymph node removal. Arm mobility impaired for how long, forever, how painful?
I am going to quote Blake to still my beating heart. When I told him, the day I could finally walk without crutches, that I needed a 3rd major surgery to repair my broken leg, he said, "Mom, don't worry about it. You won't remember a thing in a year."
How right he was. Even a few months later, when my boys escorted me down the aisle at Allison's wedding, I never thought about that leg. Just how cute and tiny I was holding those kids' arms.
Not quite Anjelina, but as good as it gets for me. I am not cute and tiny. Just ask Susie T
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