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As a mother I am not sure how my parents and family went thru this. Luckily I was young enough to not remember any of it. I am also lucky to have minimal scaring. I have a bald spot where I will always have to part my hair, a scar on my back and on the sides of my legs from skin grafts, but it could have been so much worse. Thankful for all the amazing doctors i had during this time and literally when I say I have tough skin, i mean in more ways than one. This is proof that as humans we are resilient creatures, we can overcome whatever comes at us, it’s all about how you decide to handle it and even in the shittiest of moments, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

“Before I was 6 years old, my grandparents and my mother had taught me that if all the green things that grow were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all the four-legged creatures were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all the winged creatures were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all our relatives who crawl and swim and live within the earth were taken away, there could be no life. But if all the human beings were taken away, life on earth would flourish. That is how insignificant we are.” - Russell Means, Oglala Lakota Nation