"More scars, More stories to tell..."

@ 10:22 this am, Iz's preschool. I over heard a woman telling the school bus drivers, "it's a good day for me today, more scars, more stories to tell, don't you guys agree?"

"I totally agree", I said it silently to myself.

Not to long later, Iz came out. We drove home but I couldn't stop thinking of each scar Iz has on her body. Each of them tell it's own story.  Got home, I couldn't help it but to take pictures of each of her scar.

Sitting down over here looking at those pictures reminded me so much about what she went through, what we went through for the past 3 years.  Nothing really have to be sad about it but I think I am proud to say, "My daughter is strong, My daughter is alive, My daughter is beautiful in many ways.. my daughter is happy... and my daughter is this and that.." :D

Picture Scar #1

Picture Scar #1: This is her open heart scar. All 3 surgeries in the same place, but you can still see the 1incision buried under the 3rd scar.  They closed her chest with sutures, that was because her chest got left open for 4 days.  We can actually see her little walnut through a yellow thin strip went on top of it.Not easy but all good now.

Picture Scar #2

Picture Scar #2: This is from her chest tube.  Chest tube was used to drain the blood from her chest after the surgeries. You can tell she got couple of them for the past three years. There are at least 3 of them from this pictures.  I remember she hold so still when they pulled it out on her 2nd surgeries. And with her third surgery, she was walking with it (2 tubes) all around the floor.  Started to walk 16 hours after her heart surgery. She was a strong kid.  The very first thing she asked for when she woke up was, " High School Musical's book?"  All she needed was her high school musical not even a pain killer.

Picture Scar #3

Picture Scar #3: Another chest tube scar on her right side of her body. This wasn't a good one. It gave her a lot of pain when she had her first surgery.  The tube was inserted to close to her true ribs bone. Was painful.

Picture Scar #4

Picture Scar #4: Central line. It was between her neck and upper chest.  BAD BAD BAD one.  She experienced 2 hours heavily bleeding in the CTICU when she had her second surgery.

I am so big and tall

I am proud of it!

The lady was right, "more scars, more stories to tell"