PairoDocs
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To confirm Laura's remarks, I'm not particularly ashamed of my scar. Yes, a couple of months ago I went shirtless at an all day event put on by my wife's employer at Roaring Springs in Boise. I just made sure I had plenty of sunscreen on. She's right, nobody made a disparaging remark about my scar, and I even saw another young man shirtless that day at Roaring Springs with a still reddish heart surgery scar on his sternum. He looked just like someone on the cardiac telemetry floor at St. Luke's Boise the same time I was there--a lot healthier looking this time, though. He did look a bit gray at the hospital, but much pinker, tanner, and better at the park 7 months later. I didn't get a chance to say hello as he was walking briskly the other way while I was waiting in a long line for a popular ride (a four person raft down a giant winding water slide through some tunnels) with my family.
I had no issue with swimming in public either at Petaluma's Municipal Pool nor at Doran Park swimming beach on Bodega Head--I did my first successful body surfing in 20 years that day, about 1 1/2 weeks ago.
It was fun, and my 75 year old mother did it too! Of course with her "athletic 30 year old" shape to her heart, who could blame her! Laura didn't want to do it (grew up in Chicago near Lake Michigan), but our kids had the times of their lives riding or being rolled by the waves (Jane would just snort the sand and sea water out her nose, while laughing her head off after being carried ashore under a wave). Again, no stares, no remarks, just another happy family having fun at the beach so far as anyone else was concerned.
My thread in the Post Surgery area was about my physical discomfort and itching rather than in the scar itself which I can deal with. I just don't like the idea of my having something imbeded in my skin that I'm having a constant allergic response to. Maybe there's a way to get the dissolving sutures (they don't dissolve in me) out from beneath my scar?
Scars are a fact of life. It's okay, it just shows that we've been through some very special events in our efforts to continue living. Let's enjoy our "zippers" and only get concerned if they're affecting more than the smoothness of our skins.
Chris
I had no issue with swimming in public either at Petaluma's Municipal Pool nor at Doran Park swimming beach on Bodega Head--I did my first successful body surfing in 20 years that day, about 1 1/2 weeks ago.
It was fun, and my 75 year old mother did it too! Of course with her "athletic 30 year old" shape to her heart, who could blame her! Laura didn't want to do it (grew up in Chicago near Lake Michigan), but our kids had the times of their lives riding or being rolled by the waves (Jane would just snort the sand and sea water out her nose, while laughing her head off after being carried ashore under a wave). Again, no stares, no remarks, just another happy family having fun at the beach so far as anyone else was concerned.
My thread in the Post Surgery area was about my physical discomfort and itching rather than in the scar itself which I can deal with. I just don't like the idea of my having something imbeded in my skin that I'm having a constant allergic response to. Maybe there's a way to get the dissolving sutures (they don't dissolve in me) out from beneath my scar?
Scars are a fact of life. It's okay, it just shows that we've been through some very special events in our efforts to continue living. Let's enjoy our "zippers" and only get concerned if they're affecting more than the smoothness of our skins.
Chris
