Reply #12: When I was 16, my mother... [View All]

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who was in a wheelchair (she had MS), spilled boiling stew from a crockpot into her lap (she wasn't supposed to be cooking and thought she would surprise us, but she didn't have the strength to lift the pot from out of the crockpot liner). No one was in the house at the time, and by the time my brother heard her screaming and ran inside, she had collapsed onto the stew in her lap and ended up with 3rd degree burns over the entire front of her body. After three months in a burn unit at the hospital getting skin grafts and six months in a nursing home where she got horrific bed-sores, it became clear to me that humans can endure a HELL of a lot. No one thought she would survive, but she lived another 12 years, and she never lost her faith in god (though I did). I miss her.