I’m fine now. No worries. Plus, it was like a big pillow. A big, annoying, itchy pillow.

November 2, 2012

in Random crap

Victor going through my old pictures:

Victor: Who’s this?

me: Me when I was a kid.

Victor: Um…you have an enormous cast on your head.

me: Yup.

Victor: Are there bars on the windows?

me: Possibly.  I think maybe that was when I was still at hospital.

Victor: This explains SO much.

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1 Ashley November 2, 2012 at 10:08 am

So adorable!
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2 Ellie Di November 2, 2012 at 10:09 am

I notice you didn’t say what KIND of hospital.
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3 Mel November 2, 2012 at 10:09 am

Oh, Victor. It’s so cute that you’re still surprised by these things.
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4 Stacey November 2, 2012 at 10:09 am

Aww, Victor gets you. Big time. ;-)

5 Chelsye Garrett November 2, 2012 at 10:09 am

Ummm…are you going to tell us what really happened? It may be more fun for us just to guess.

(It’s way more fun to read the guesses. ~ Jenny)
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6 Skwishee November 2, 2012 at 10:10 am

If only I had a picture like this to show my husband.
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7 Katie November 2, 2012 at 10:10 am

Ah memories. My husband recently found a picture of me at 4 standing on top of the bar in my dad’s friend’s basement singing really loudly. “What were you singing, babe?” Paradise by the Dashboard Light. Because my parents were classy. I knew every word.
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8 Stephanie November 2, 2012 at 10:10 am

Ah, to be young again.
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9 Jennifer W. November 2, 2012 at 10:10 am

Ouch! Poor Baby!Jenny.

10 anna @ HaHas for HooHas November 2, 2012 at 10:11 am

I like to keep my husband guessing too. Keeps the mystery alive …

11 Katie November 2, 2012 at 10:11 am

Were you attacked by a wild bobcat your dad brought home? Head butted by a goat? Or could it be something as inane as tripping over an untied shoelace? Victor is WRONG. This explains nothing. It only inspires questions!

12 prin November 2, 2012 at 10:11 am

Aw, reminds me of when I had my ears pinned when I was eight. I still remember how much it hurt.

13 jesspants November 2, 2012 at 10:11 am

I just have broken wrist and busted lip pictures from when I was a kid. I was a badass back in my day, I tell ya. Looks like you were, too.
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14 Andreas Heinakroon November 2, 2012 at 10:12 am

Regular childhood, then? Actually, remember reading your book now, and will shut up.
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15 Carrie - Cannibalistic Nerd November 2, 2012 at 10:13 am

Did you break your ear? Didn’t that just happen to you again?
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16 Reneesance November 2, 2012 at 10:13 am

I’m suddenly sad that I don’t have any pictures like this to show my husband. My life feels like its got a big hole in it.
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17 Toia November 2, 2012 at 10:14 am

Victor failed to notice how peaceful you looked in your head cast. That may be because you are unconsciouse but you look peaceful all the same. He really is “glasses half empty”sometimes”

18 Stephanie November 2, 2012 at 10:15 am

Kokak: Immortalizing your precious memories since 1892. (Is Kodak still in business?)
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19 NATurally Inappropriate November 2, 2012 at 10:15 am

The bars on teh windows just make this post extra awesome.
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20 L November 2, 2012 at 10:15 am

Now I know what to be for halloween next year! Plus I’d get to sleep. Bonus.
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21 Heretic Husband November 2, 2012 at 10:16 am

It explains so much…and yet brings up more questions. Like an episode of Lost.
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22 Nic F November 2, 2012 at 10:17 am

Did it ever occur to him that possibly it was when they put the tracking device in and didn’t want you to escape before it healed?
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23 Naked Girl in a Dress November 2, 2012 at 10:18 am

So, what the hell happened to your ear? Don’t like cliffhangers!
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24 Gurukarm November 2, 2012 at 10:18 am

Yeah. What Mel (#3) said. Really Victor, HOW long have you known her now?? ;-)

25 The Sadder But Wiser Girl November 2, 2012 at 10:20 am

Lucky you, you have photographic evidence to support the madness. I have none. They just have to keep forming hypotheses and wondering how I got to be the crazy person I am.
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26 Erin November 2, 2012 at 10:20 am

…it also sort of looks like you were being fed out of a dog dish…
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27 gina November 2, 2012 at 10:21 am

LUCKY. when i had my lobotomy, my cast was bigger and bulkier.

28 Slobber Tales November 2, 2012 at 10:22 am

I don’t think I understand the ‘cookie’ reference. Although, it may be that I’m not SUPPOSED to understand it.
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29 The Original Lisa November 2, 2012 at 10:22 am

I punched her in the face y’all. I had a pretty powerful left hook for a 4 year old.

30 Jessica November 2, 2012 at 10:23 am

Did you mean to write “cookie” in the title or were you just thinking about cookies at the time you were writing this? haha. Because now, I want a cookie.

(HA! I totally was thinking about cookies. Changing it now. ~ Jenny)

31 Michele November 2, 2012 at 10:24 am

I have pictures of myself with two black eyes from when I was four. When people ask, I just tell them they should have seen the other kid.

32 Stefanie November 2, 2012 at 10:24 am

Perfectly normal — I’m sure I have one just like it in my childhood photo album.

33 Erika November 2, 2012 at 10:26 am

Noticing that Hailey looks so much like you it appears she may have been cloned.

34 Mona - Moxie-Dude November 2, 2012 at 10:29 am

Awwww. You look so sweet. But really still the same. WITHOUT the pillow bandage.
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35 XLMIC November 2, 2012 at 10:29 am

He is just now finding these pictures? Dude did not do his pre-vow research… or was this an arranged marriage?
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36 Robert K. Blechman November 2, 2012 at 10:29 am

Ah, memories!
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37 Kadesh November 2, 2012 at 10:31 am

Wait, what? How are you gonna just leave something like that out there? This wasn’t in your book.

Storytime, children. We’re all gathered round. Now spill, Ms. Lawson. :-)
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38 Sam Whiteoak November 2, 2012 at 10:33 am

A zombie child!! Awesome!
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39 Karen November 2, 2012 at 10:34 am

I don’t get the big deal… Clearly your parents went for the “gauze headband” route, as your got yards of headbands for a much cheaper price.

Right?

40 lilyhy November 2, 2012 at 10:34 am

did this incident have anything to do w/Jenkins? Cuz I can totally see it.

41 GinaP November 2, 2012 at 10:34 am

I love when I have photographic evidence to support my tall tales of my youth that I tell my children. This one would definitely accompany a tale of alien abduction or experimental science all because of my extreme intelligence. However, I don’t have a photo like this to support those stories I may have already told my children.
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42 Nicole@TheKidlessKronicles November 2, 2012 at 10:35 am

You poor thing. They were just implanting your v-chip. Or awesome chip.

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43 Melissa November 2, 2012 at 10:36 am

A…cookie? Please tell me you didn’t eat that.
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44 Skye November 2, 2012 at 10:36 am

Well, it’s a cast, so that means something is broken. I’m voting for being trampled by one of the wild animals around your parents home. Although goats probably do more damage trampling than bobcats do.
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45 danna November 2, 2012 at 10:36 am

I like the vomit trough by your head. JUST IN CASE.

46 David Cutler November 2, 2012 at 10:39 am

Oh dear…. knowing your wonderful medical history… probably something like Ménière’s Disease, with a physician who tried to relieve the pressure surgically!

47 Courtney November 2, 2012 at 10:40 am

So what’s the story here? Inquiring minds want to know!
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48 aprilmathies@yahoo.com November 2, 2012 at 10:40 am

You would think he’d know not to wonder by now! We all have those pictures though….mine is when I had a broken writst….no bars on the window though….just a cat trying to eat the cast.

49 Janis November 2, 2012 at 10:40 am

My guess: some type of Ear surgery. I know so many kids that have that same head wrap.

50 Leanne Shirtliffe (Ironic Mom) November 2, 2012 at 10:41 am

I think I should have done this to my daughter after she got a bad hair cut.
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51 Jess November 2, 2012 at 10:43 am

I’m voting for random goat head-butting, I think.

My mother recently told me I liked to put plastic bags over my head as a child. Sigh. I say her attempts to suffocate me combined with my aunt dropping me on my head when I was a newborn (she was 7. I peed on her lap…she let me roll off on the floor. MUCH more interesting to say she dropped me) explain EVERYTHING about me.
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52 Stacey November 2, 2012 at 10:43 am

Halloween costume ? Lobotomy ? Ear transplant ? Nothing at all just a kid wanting attenion ? What happened ?

53 Laura @ Unlikely Explanations November 2, 2012 at 10:43 am

True confessions: I actually just checked your profile picture to verify that you do, in fact, still have two ears.
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54 Stacey November 2, 2012 at 10:43 am

*attention*
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55 Brittany November 2, 2012 at 10:45 am

Was this before or after the dead squirrel puppet incident?

56 Chuck Baudelaire November 2, 2012 at 10:47 am

So…you died? Or what?
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57 Jennifer November 2, 2012 at 10:47 am

I thought maybe I was the one suffering head trauma since I had read cookie but then it was gone minutes later. This pic totally supports our stories told to children though-”when I was a kid in the hospital, there were bars on the windows not pretty paintings on the walls. I also walked miles in the snow to school. Damned spoiled kids these days.”

58 Shannon November 2, 2012 at 10:48 am

My guess: Beyonce used a Tardis to travel back in time and trip you. Just for kicks. You hit your head on a giant ball of twine, that, alas, was never to be touched by he who will respectfully remain unnamed.
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59 Todd November 2, 2012 at 10:49 am

I had a head wound once. At least I think I did. Did I? Who remembers these things.
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60 Sheila B. November 2, 2012 at 10:50 am

IF you care….Facebook still says “big, annoying, itchy cookie”……but I gotta tell ya…..it was the hook that pulled me in….itchy cookie? WTF is an itchy cookie? Poison ivy cookies? Ok….I have to stop working and see wtf she is talking about. Thanks for the loss in productivity.

61 Izzy Mason November 2, 2012 at 10:50 am

Aww.. you look so sad! What happened to you?
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62 Smokeynall November 2, 2012 at 10:51 am

Ah, nothing sticks with you like cerebral trauma. Good times.
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63 AmyG November 2, 2012 at 10:51 am

I had this SAME bandage style when I was 6!! I have a growth removed from my inner ear. It was growing towards my brain, and if left untreated, I would slowly start to become mentally retarded. (please forgive me if that terminology offends) True story. It would start pressing on the part of my brain that effects that.
Now I have no hearing in my left ear, but it’s a lot easier to deal with that issue.

64 H Miller November 2, 2012 at 10:55 am

Was that your Van Gogh period?

65 Kathleen November 2, 2012 at 10:55 am

Aww.
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66 Devon November 2, 2012 at 10:56 am

MAN!! Now I want a cookie! And I was kind of disappointed to see that there was nothing in this post about a big annoying itchy cookie… I’m going to go eat pizza (and then find cookies somewhere). You should leave the title as is because it’s fabulous and totally throws people off!
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67 Rachel November 2, 2012 at 11:01 am

There’s so much more to the story that we’re missing…
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68 Rainyday November 2, 2012 at 11:02 am

Mmmm cookies!
I’m sure there’s an awesome story behind this.
Most of my childhood pictures consist of me being topless with my tongue hanging out. Kind of a “toddlers gone wild” deal, I guess.
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69 Kiran@Masalachica November 2, 2012 at 11:04 am

You really were cute. Where was the straitjacket? ;-)
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70 Lisa November 2, 2012 at 11:12 am

See, *I* think the bigger mystery is why you’re using the British “at hospital” instead of the American “at the hospital”. I’m sensing secret UK sleeper agentry going on here.

71 Dana the Biped November 2, 2012 at 11:15 am

Some Van Gogh thing with your ear, perhaps?
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72 Phaedra Bonewits November 2, 2012 at 11:15 am

My mother has spent the last six decades telling the story about how when I was an infant, burglars broke into our apartment through the window in my bedroom. She always ends the story with, “If you had made a sound, they might have killed you!” After listening to this for forty years or so, my kid sister finally pipes up, “So that’s when they left the changeling!” It explains so much.

73 Issa November 2, 2012 at 11:18 am

So…what exactly happened?
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74 Cara(Eli) November 2, 2012 at 11:19 am

That looks painful! Did you mistake a live kangaroo for a taxidermied one and tried to hug it?

I’m assuming Victor means this explains why you are so awesome? ;)
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75 Kate McMaster November 2, 2012 at 11:21 am

My daughter, Gillian brought home a book for me called “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” by Jenny Lawson. She said it “totally reminds me of you”. After reading the book; I am left contemplating
a) gratitude that she “gets me”
b) suicide

76 Karen Sanders November 2, 2012 at 11:38 am

I’m wondering why.
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77 Susan M. Fisher November 2, 2012 at 11:42 am

Did you get to keep the pillow/ big, itchy bandage?

78 EdT. November 2, 2012 at 11:49 am

This MUST have been when you were recovering from the chupacabra attack. And the bars were there to keep the zombies at bay.

~EdT.
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79 Judy Sucevic November 2, 2012 at 11:52 am

People, she CLEARLY was attacked by a hungry zombie! It tried to get her brains, then it noticed that they were warped and left her to die. A local animal control officer dropped her at the local veterinary hospital, and they put her head in a cast, called her parents, and told them that she may be brain damaged for life.

80 natalie November 2, 2012 at 12:01 pm

Now if only you had fallen asleep with a corndog in your hand. That’s called perfection.
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81 Minnesota Red November 2, 2012 at 12:07 pm

Parasitic twin-ectomy.

82 BiPagan November 2, 2012 at 12:12 pm

Continuing my efforts to read all of TheBloggess.com backward and I read about Hailey speaking to angels in the cemetary. Now that we know from Doctor Who that those angels aren’t all they appear to be, that angel seems to be staring down at Hailey rather menacingly. Hey Angel! Hailey is not a tasty treat. I repeat NOT a tasty treat.

And good on Hailey for being vigilant about watching those angel statues. There is a HUGE Jesus statue on the side of a local church and I keep an eye on him whenever I drive past. You just never know.

VIGILANCE!

83 MsDarkstar November 2, 2012 at 12:15 pm

Obviously there was either a throw-down with Jenkins or you fainted when you found out Daffodil had been consumed by the homeless folks and cracked your noggin resulting in needing the head bandage.

Either that or the cow came back for revenge after the baster incident…

So many possibilities.
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84 Morgan Eckstein November 2, 2012 at 12:23 pm

I notice that he just assumes that it is That Type of hospital, and that Type of Operation.
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85 Bonny November 2, 2012 at 12:23 pm

What I want to know if, why would your parents think that was a Kodak moment?! Is it the same sort of twisted impulse that causes people to go take pictures of their totalled cars in the junkyard after they get out of the hospital? Or was it an “awww, this may be the last time we see her, we better take a picture” thing? OR did Lisa take the picture with which to torture you later? But seeing maybe she was too young to be seeking blackmail material…yet. So many questions.

86 Bonny November 2, 2012 at 12:24 pm

…and apparently on Fridays my ability to form coherent sentences stays home.

87 Marni LaFleur November 2, 2012 at 12:28 pm

I’m a little concerned about the adult-sized corpse-hand in the bed. Is taxidermy legal for humans?

88 Synnove @ Don't Chew On The Dinner Table! November 2, 2012 at 12:29 pm

Wait… they make head casts? My Mom just used Duck Tape….
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89 Amanda November 2, 2012 at 12:40 pm

…hm. Similar to the pictures I have of me when I had my second surgery. I looked all half dead and pathetic that time, too. Why do parents insist on documenting such things?
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90 Jenny November 2, 2012 at 1:01 pm

I’m pretty sure this is actually a picture of the first time the full moon went down and you turned back into a human girl.

Explains the bars on the window, anyway.

91 Stephanie C | Seriously? Really?? Seriously? November 2, 2012 at 1:06 pm

I see no cat.
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92 keb2747 November 2, 2012 at 1:06 pm

Did you notice that the url for this post says “annoying-itchy-cookie” instead of ‘annoying-itchy-pillow’? Just thought I’d point it out since only Jenny would have an itchy cookie…and then i started wondering what would make a cookie itchy and where you would have to be holding the cookie to have it make you itch and this post made no sense to me at because of that. Clearly I need time in the ‘hospital’…

93 Jenn November 2, 2012 at 1:13 pm

Maybe you got that head injury during Junior Zombie Slayer’s camp?
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94 The Hook November 2, 2012 at 1:18 pm

You didn’t bang your head on the bars in a vain attempt to escape, did you?
Trust me, that NEVER works…

95 Mandi November 2, 2012 at 1:18 pm

I had the exact same thing when I had ear surgery at the age of 12. I had to wear the giant head cast for several weeks. I couldn’t wash my hair. It was gross.

96 Laura November 2, 2012 at 1:21 pm

Actually, it reminds me of somebody being scalped. not that I have experience in that area … but my mom swears I have stitches in my head under my hair somewhere.

However, I do find it interesting that your parents chose to take a picture while you were sleeping, instead of being awake so you could at least make a face at the camera. Was it one of those, “she’s so much sweeter when she’s Asleep?” Or a “oh look, the mad cobra is sleeping, lets take a picture NOW so that we can be far away before she wakes up!”

97 Jenna K November 2, 2012 at 1:22 pm

At least they didn’t put one of those cones on your head to keep you from itching it… kinda fun to imagine it though.

98 Siress Yorkie November 2, 2012 at 1:28 pm

I noticed your fetching hospital gown and the corner of a puke pan near you. Tells me everything I need to know.
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99 Danielle November 2, 2012 at 1:28 pm

That’s one hell of a bandage. I can only image the itch it had to create.
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100 moooooog35 November 2, 2012 at 1:29 pm

You realize that you’re mere moments away from being taxidermied here, right?
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101 Katie November 2, 2012 at 1:30 pm

After reading your book, I’m guessing you were mauled by something.

102 Dot W November 2, 2012 at 1:31 pm

“You should have seen the other little son of a bitch.”

103 Nats November 2, 2012 at 1:33 pm

I am gonna take a guess. You were playing in your yard, and turkeys decided to attack. To escape, you climbed up on the roof of your house. And then there was a bear pelt on the roof, which you weren’t expecting so it startled you. And then you fell off the roof. And the turkeys pecked your unconscious head.

104 Susie Lindau (@SusieLindau) November 2, 2012 at 1:46 pm

Now there’s a story to be told……waiting……
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105 Laurie November 2, 2012 at 1:52 pm

You had your elfen ears re-shaped so you could pass for human? Although, why would you want that?
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106 Karen Peterson November 2, 2012 at 2:11 pm

If only there was a picture like that to explain ME…
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107 E M Foster November 2, 2012 at 2:20 pm

It’s nice that you’re able to still surprise your husband. My husband is no longer surprised when I say crazy things like I have no idea what’s going on in my novel. My characters won’t listen to me anymore. That just gets a nod and a you’ll straighten them out.

108 Ashleigh November 2, 2012 at 2:22 pm

Chupacabra. Definitely Chupacabra.
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109 khereva November 2, 2012 at 2:53 pm

Having received a lot of suspicious stitches in my head when I was very young, I now have confirmation: somewhere out in the world there are TWO escaped gorillas, who can read and write (albeit clumsily, with their huge hands), who have trouble running on all fours, who would be solid citizens now if not for that unnamed doctor’s unspeakable experiments.

It’s a pleasure to finally meet the other subject.

110 Bodaciousboomer November 2, 2012 at 2:53 pm

Did they try to quell your innate Jennyness at that young age by a lobotomy which, lucky for all of us, was never completed?
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111 Molrella November 2, 2012 at 2:58 pm

You were balancing on a wall, when someone threw the carcass of a dead animal at you. This took you somewhat by surprise, so you gracefully swan-dived off the wall into a pile of rocks and split open your head?
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112 Stephanie November 2, 2012 at 3:24 pm

I read your book. I’m thinking GSW.
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113 Donna November 2, 2012 at 3:42 pm

I have a picture of myself with my arm in a cast when I was 5. I look surprisingly like Caroline Kennedy.

It looks like an ear thing to me. Aren’t they now assymetrical?

114 Lindsey November 2, 2012 at 3:44 pm

Was Mike Tyson in the vicinity? I assume your ear had been gnawed off…I’m glad you were able to grow a new one. Yay for you!
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115 Mia November 2, 2012 at 3:52 pm

Finally…the appropriate hairstyle to wear with a head injury. Why has this never been in Glamour?
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116 Pam November 2, 2012 at 4:19 pm

I was recently in a coma for about a month and when I came out of the coma I had tubes going in and out of me everywhere: 4 down my throat, 2 out the other end, one in my neck, another in my shoulder, one in my foot, a couple in my arm…. Shortly after I woke up and before I finally got to go home, my mother told me that she wished she had taken a picture so I could see what I looked like. I was like “Really?!! What’s wrong with you?!!”

117 Carole November 2, 2012 at 5:18 pm

I suspect you were jumping on the bed when Original Lisa pushed you off.
Or should I say punched?

Or you fell out of the window waving at soldiers? That could explain the bars. Maybe.

Bars. Now I’m thirsty. Off for vodka!

118 Terry November 2, 2012 at 5:19 pm

OMG! It’s kind of spooky, I have one somewhere (okay, my mom probably still has it) that’s very similar, but with the bandages over my eye as well! Except, no bars; just the curtain with the moaning chick in the next ER bay behind it… ah the memories.

119 Rhana @ Dumb {Squared} November 2, 2012 at 5:29 pm

You looked like Reagan MacNeil from The Excorcist. And I’ll shut up now.
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120 Stephanie Pires November 2, 2012 at 5:33 pm

I just sat in Barnes and Noble for 3 hours reading your book. I had never heard of you, but I had written a novel about my crazy family and when I saw the dressed up mouse, I thought we might be related. WAtching you pull out all the family stops was so healing and when it comes out in paperback, I’ll buy it and read it from beginning to end. It was Wonderful and today is my birthday, so I feel doubly blessed. Thanks.

121 Lady Penelope November 2, 2012 at 5:40 pm

The reason why hats are so popular …

Side note: if *anyone* had a photo of me asleep I would hunt. them. down.

122 Stella November 2, 2012 at 5:53 pm

This is most definately one of those times where reading the comments is as much fun as the post. And, now I sort of feel like I’m stuck in the mystery of your childhood illness, which is like a total cliffhanger that would happen at the end of The Young and The Restless or something.
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123 monica November 2, 2012 at 6:18 pm

the kotex pad on the head look. you wore it well. kudos!
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124 debby November 2, 2012 at 6:45 pm

Oh my God, this SO needs to be a contest where we have to guess what happened to your head, and then the most original answer (and probably the one closest to the truth) wins… a mini Pony Danza!
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125 Lori November 2, 2012 at 7:15 pm

Jenny, were you pointing that hair dryer at your noggin way back when?
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126 Brigette November 2, 2012 at 7:29 pm

Totally guessing sploding eardrum.

127 Sarah November 2, 2012 at 7:36 pm

Vanilla Ice hair cut gone terribly, terribly wrong?
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128 Amanda November 2, 2012 at 7:45 pm

My favorite part of this whole post is how you accidently called it a cookie. Then, when I came back to show my husband just how amazingly strange your mind works, the word cookie was GONE! Now my husband thinks we’re both crazy… which sucks because I was trying to keep that from him until he upped his life insurance again.

129 Miss Gee November 2, 2012 at 8:46 pm

:P Victor is so damn witty…although I would like to know what really happened?
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130 Christina @ The Beautiful Balance November 2, 2012 at 9:02 pm

Hahaha! So, what really happened?
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131 C.A. November 2, 2012 at 9:36 pm

So I’m guessing your parents had your ears tucked? The bandage looks similar to the one I sported for a week at the age of 12….lol

132 Lisa F. November 2, 2012 at 9:41 pm

Jenny, you are so lucky that you look the same now! Except for the cast. I mean, you look just as young.
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133 Cheryl D. November 3, 2012 at 12:27 am

That looks awful!
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134 Hikeezy November 3, 2012 at 3:04 am

It’s like that time that Hailey thought spiders were in the eggs in your fridge except instead of fridges’ it’s ‘Mummy’s ears when she was a kid’ and therefore your post about competitive ear-bleeding vs. Victor is all starting to make sense because clearly, you were having a relapse of your childhood trauma.

The disappointing part is that Victor’s only just starting to make sense of it now.

I, on the other hand, shant judge you or your ear juices. Because that’s what friends do. ;)
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135 Amanda's Husband November 3, 2012 at 7:01 am

Hunny, I’ve known you were crazy for a long time.

136 Klementine November 3, 2012 at 7:28 am

You never cease to amaze. Also now everyone’s waiting for you to explain how it happened.
I think Victor’s being a little judgemental…I mean, so what if there were bars on the window? That can be a good thing.
And for all he knows you were at hospital because your mum was sick and being you, found a pile of bandages and decided to bandage up your head ‘Just like Mummy’s, Daddy, look!’ then fell asleep because hey, self-bandaging is tiring.
That’s totally a reasonable excuse, right?
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137 thedoseofreality November 3, 2012 at 8:04 am

That is just plain awesome.
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138 miss gina November 3, 2012 at 9:34 am

Could be so many different injuries, so many choices, like the buffet at Golden Corral.

139 Tom Stronach November 3, 2012 at 10:49 am

Awwww even the little kidney dish there too just in case you throw up, but YAH you survived and methinks Victor is correct……. It may explain everything xxxxxxxx
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140 A nony mouse November 3, 2012 at 11:13 am

A day late and I missed out on the cookies, good thing the comments filled me up.
My guess, you were kicked by a dead pony. I didn’t read about that yet in your book, but I’m only on page 58 (proof..”Draw Me A…Dog”) and it’s been over a year. Either I’m a slow reader or I’m not depressed enough to read that some people were actually worse off than me.
ps; luv the book, just like my childhood, ah, the memories.

141 Jenn November 3, 2012 at 11:44 am

Your mom had your ears pinned back so nobody would know you are the illegitimate daughter of Clark Gable?

142 Shefali November 3, 2012 at 12:06 pm

Awww..sending you hugs for back then.
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143 opinion8dhermit aka g davies November 3, 2012 at 12:28 pm

Oh no what happened? Did you try to crawl into a live deer (well, buck with antlers)? Sadly that made me giggle.
I love your convos with your hubby .they remind me of my own convos. With my hubby. Hell, and myself. Im my own conversation partner.
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144 alice November 3, 2012 at 12:41 pm

I had that exact same bandage 7 times!!!!! Including the “sick trough”,( repeated ear drum reconstruciton using autograft…)
In my day, they used to do a half head shave prep….and my mother wondered why i didn’t want to go to school.
That, and being 5 foot nine in grade five, and the new “bald” girl at school, during one of the last ones…

145 Jen V November 3, 2012 at 6:43 pm

Oh. My. God. I had the SAME weird, totally unflattering, social-life killing head bandage after a car accident. I’ve never seen one as humiliating as mine before. Thank you!

146 elaine kurpiel November 3, 2012 at 8:20 pm

Lobotomy? Fashion statement? in-grown ear ring? You look so cute and normal…just shows you can’t judge outward appearances. Luv ya.

147 Amzzzziohi November 4, 2012 at 7:23 am

Ah ha! Brain transplant!

148 Amoria Phlebitis November 4, 2012 at 1:29 pm

Looks like a photo of Jamie Summers before they took her into surgery to make her the Bionic Woman…

149 Lisa Marie Mary November 4, 2012 at 5:02 pm

Funny, ha! But that hand looks too big for you!
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150 Lara S November 4, 2012 at 11:33 pm

What I want to know is why the hospital window had bars in the first place.

151 Risley November 5, 2012 at 11:46 am

I read your book, I don’t remember this being mentioned in the book. Please don’t tell me this is in book 2? Where is book 2? You said in Seattle it would not be another 11 years. Where is BOOK 2? How many chapters you got written so far?

Wow, I am still sugar buzzing from left over Halloween candy. I need a Latte to calm down.

152 abby November 5, 2012 at 1:06 pm

This is kind of how I felt when my sister admitted to letting me roll off the bed when I was a baby.
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153 Maria @ Cheeky Pink Tulip November 6, 2012 at 12:26 pm

Hold on, what had happened to you??
Maria xx
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154 Becky November 6, 2012 at 5:19 pm

I have a lobotomy picture just like that!

155 Janika November 7, 2012 at 3:34 am

I have to be honest- I’m actually jealous you got medical attention AND a cute kid pic to go with it. You look precious *kiss for that*. I still have bumpy scars on my head from a severe lack of stitches. And I’m with everyone else, hope it’s in book 2!
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156 Travis Cotton November 7, 2012 at 7:43 am

That looks painful.

157 Tami November 8, 2012 at 1:29 am

Califlower ear from wrestling… sholda worn head gear.. Hope ya pinned him.

158 Martha Mineo November 13, 2012 at 10:46 am

What happened to your little head? lol

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