Enough of that. Here’s a question: Is a scarred face still a jewel? And another: How do facial scars affect the soul?
Consider the following:
#1
Did you read Autobiography of A Face, by Lucy Grealy? I did. Sometime in the late 1990s. It's the story of Lucy's cancer of the jaw, the surgeries to cut away the cancer, the accompanying destruction of her face, and the surgeries to remake the face into one its owner could look at and show to others. For a long time she wore a scarf over part of her face.
It's a sad story, of struggle and pain and endurance that lasted from age nine until her death, but a compelling one.
Here's a quote from her older sister, Suellen Grealy. "Lucy's life became harder, with endless reconstructive surgeries, frustration at her inability to recreate the crystalline beauty of Autobiography, and a loneliness she attributed to being 'ugly'."
Think that over.
By the way, Lucy Grealy died in 2002 from an "accidental" overdose of heroin. She was addicted to it, had earlier become addicted to OxyContin after overcoming her addiction to codeine. Because of the pain of/from her face.
I cannot evaluate her soul, of course.
2 comments:
What about the woman who had her face ripped off by the chimpanzee and has to walk around with a scarf covering her shattered face? Very sad how her life was changed in an instant.
And then there's Stephanie Nielson, the young mother who's face was burned severely in a plane crash. It is enlightening to read her blogs about how she has dealt with returning to her family and public.
http://nieniedialogues.blogspot.com/
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