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Thursday Mar 02, 2006
Every BODY Has a Story: Wounded Heart
"My mom and I got into a big fight a few years ago, a really big fight. We ended up not speaking to each other for about nine months. During the time we weren’t speaking, she found out that she had contracted pancreatic cancer. It broke my heart that I didn’t find out sooner. My siblings called me and told me I had to come quick if I wanted to see her again. I was lost.
I got this tattoo the hour I heard the news, and got on the next plane. My mom was in hospice care at her home when I got there. She saw the tattoo and knew that though things were difficult at times that I always loved her and was proud to have her on my arm.
An hour and a half after I arrived, she died. The hospice people said they thought she was waiting for me. I think so too. She and I both had problems with substance abuse, but had been clean and sober for a while when this happened. The doctors tried to give her Morphine for her pain, but she was determined to die clean and sober. She is the toughest woman I have ever met.
The tattoo is a little different from an ordinary heart symbol with the “Mom” banner. This tattoo is an actual heart. The feeling of pain in my heart is not just a metaphor for me, it is real."
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