self portrait tuesday...traumatic documentation

me today...
a scar above my right eye from an unfortunate
step in front of a swing set ...one year after the
football helmut came off {below}...i have a smaller
scar to match on the other eyelid from a run in with
a coffee table...again when i was a wee tot...
head injury a go~go...............


....easter 1959,yep,that's me in a football helmut to
protect my fractured skull....i fell down the
basement steps,landing head first on the concrete
floor below,since there was no blood my mother
thought that i was alright,until the next day when
she was brushing my hair and felt a mushy spot
on my head.off to the er we went where we were told
that nothing should come in contact with my head...
hence the football helmet {donated by a local sporting
goods store} and there it stayed for 6 weeks. i have since
wondered if that fracture may have caused later problems,
when posing the question to a dr. on occasion...their answer
was always "no",but the question remains in the back of
my mind.