How Do You Feel About It?
So I've been pretty fixated on Franken-Arm, and finding the levity, and cracking jokes, and accessorizing, etc. Until a friend on another platform asked me the simplest question that no one else had, and it floored me. They asked: "How do you feel about it?" I started crying and didn't really know what to say. How DO I feel about this gaping wound that will never heal? That part(s) of my body are gone, that others are in different places, that I've been sliced and diced to oblivion and the REAL fun hasn't even STARTED yet? "How do you feel about it?" I feel pretty shit about it, frankly. Sure I can hide my arm easily with accessories, but I know it's there. I know what it looks like, how it ALWAYS will look. I feel the numbness in my fingers and the shooting nerve pain from where they're beginning to grow back to a small extent. It's always present. It's always making itself known. It's ALWAYS THERE, reminding me of what I'v...