My friend Ruth recently underwent a double mastectomy. She is doing okay. There is reconstruction work that they have to do, so right now, her nipples are cryogenically frozen. (How odd to think of body parts being elsewhere, waiting to be reunited.)
We at the United NeoPagan Council of Lake Erie board meeting last night, and Ruth was joking about the experience. She does stand-up comedy and observed that she had at least 9 pages of new material. I think that having a good sense of humor can help one through rough times. When she was joking about wondering where her nipples were, 2 friends asked which hospital. When Ruth told them, they realized that the person who was in charge of that sort of thing was someone they knew and her body parts were probably under the care of a fellow Pagan. So, Ruth felt immensely comforted by that. ;)
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