@Charity Swedberg Truly, Ty Charity🫶🏻… However, I will never feel sry for myself for going through that horrific time; I look back now, & can laugh at many of those bad moments… My parents & I, we three were extremely close. Our family (aunts & uncles included), had the greatest love & sense of humors. Even through hard & challenging times, we always did our bests to keep smiling through. A funny story: After my ex husband had up & left my children & I, & we had to stay at my parents until an apt opened up for me to re build my foundation… During that time, I was cleaning & had fallen off my parents sofa, severely rupturing 2 disks in my neck & loosing the function of my left arm & hand. That was the most painful surgery I’d had at that point (prior, I’d had 1 heart surgery at 21 y/o, & 2 emergency low spine surgeries, both at 26 y/o, after being injured by a patient while I was working as a Paramedic). 9 months later, the screws went loose & the 2” plate had went crooked that sat behind my esophagus, cutting my airway off. As long as I held my chin to my chest, I was okay & able to breathe. I was literally devastated. & knowing I had to repeat that surgery & the horrid pain again; well, it just was so unexpected, & I was extremely nervous. My neurosurgeon gave me 12 hrs, bc I had to transfer my children’s schooling, pack up myself & my girls to stay a month at my parents (I had only been in my new apt for 6 months). My dad, again took me for the surgery, & my mom stayed back home with my daughters (5 & 7). After the surgery, I’d woke up, the pain horrific. They got me back to my room, & sat the head of my bed up. And immediately seen my feet … I looked at my dad; within the worst of pain, & I couldn’t STOP my smile, even with tears running down my face; myself, behind my eyes, smh & chuckling, bc I couldn’t laugh out loud, shake my head, nor could I speak, but only at a whisper. On each of my 10 toes, we’re BRIGHT NEON blue, crocheted mini TOE HATS!!🤣