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I S. M. E. L. L.

Two weeks without a shower...

In the middle of the night I awoke to the smell of me...

I’ve used wipes, hair salons, and cornstarch...

Today, with the Dr's permission, I hope to get the drains out...

Then 24 hours more and I can stand beneath a long earned cascade of cleanse...

It’s been interesting to smell pungent for long...

Erin McGee Ferrell

I Have Your SKIN

Two sheets of skin in my body are not mine.

Maybe from one person or two?

Donated willingly by a contract before death.

Today I am wondering about who this skin belonged to: Gender, race, age, occupation, personality and intelligence?

My healing now resurrecting the passed life in a new way, feeding your genes and merging with my cells. Aware that skin is just skin, my imagination runs with silly ideas about your traits becoming mine. To suddenly like football, eggplant, and fluency in Spanish....me becoming alien host.

Erin McGee Ferrell

The Good Student

I am the good student.

I take notes and get my homework turned in on time; uncomfortable with failure, abiding by the teacher's every suggestion.

It’s the same with being a patient.

There is no courage involved - only checking off the to-do list; the team of teachers, the different classrooms and topics and learning new vocabulary and research.

I find myself Desperate for the pat on the back of a job well done, striving for the “A+,” upon completion.

Erin McGee Ferrell

Soft Into Tough

Carla told me that I am becoming tougher, less carefree. Whether it is a lack of Estrogen or experience; I will claim the 50's housewife into the cowgirl state.

❗Tough now - to not take crap and to be hurt.

❗To claim my truth and to state my need.

by Erin McGee Ferrell

"ALIENS"

How do we get to be this estranged?

We’re all the same

treating each other differently

instead of trying to understand

without too much judgment

Ruby - Astari Boedikoentjara

Chest Port

Yesterday a nurse surgically implanted a disk in my chest.

Tubes under skin stretch artery to neck.

The purpose? To bypass arm veins during Chemo and blood work.

Today, neck sore, movements limited and recovery stepped back.

Heart easily accessible for every new task.

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Erin McGee Ferrell

Arms On The Floor

I can finally lie on my back with my arms spread in a T.

Today, three weeks after Mastectomy, prone at Planet Fitness and appearing to be lazy just smiling with my arms on the floor - OT stretching exercise success.

Still no lifting the gallon of milk and humiliated at using the bowling ramp on New Year's.

Joy achieved on this grimy purple M mat in the corner of a Wednesday gym.

Erin McGee Ferrell

Kicking Pillows

I have a pillow issue. These squares of various hues and textures bring me joy.

Others in my family mock my demand, flinging the arrangements on floor and behind couch, annoyed by such item, impractical in functionality by long torso-ed men.