New Tattoo

LOOKING LIAM

The idea was born from a jokey remark. A semicolon offered as a title for my post surgery reduced colon. I was having a sigmoid colon resection. It happened September 26, 2016.

The cause of the surgery was an acute diverticulitis attack on July 13 with all the possible trimmings, abscess, ulceration Advil proof pain and accompanied by a series of drug resistant infections and followed by more after. If there was an infection to be had my colon found it. After the surgery, the incision sites became infected and my body then rejected the internal stitches. I pulled them out of suture holes until mid-January, They were the consistency of used dental floss and the turquoise blue color of Bermuda water. I am glad they were easy to grab and pleasant to look at because I saw a lot of them.
The never ending operation and recovery. My body does not like to be messed with.
I had decided to get a new tattoo to celebrate and commemorate. It would be a semicolon. In my search for tattoo pins I was educated. Semicolon tattoos are popular. Why?
The semicolon is a treasured and elite symbol in the punctuation family..
link to the the grammar explanation of a semicolon
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/semicolon.htm 

a semicolon connects two independent but related sentences. Two for the price of one, the comma, and the period. A pause but not an end.  How could one not embrace this positive punctuation?
and what about it in the tattoo world?
in one sentence
Your story is not over yet.
Hopeful.
Powerful if you thought yours was.
Read about its adoption as an emblem for many.
http://www.upworthy.com/have-you-seen-anyone-with-a-semicolon-tattoo-heres-what-its-about

Founded in 2013, Project Semicolon was created to support and honor those struggling with suicide, depression, self injury and addiction. The organization's mission statement is "semicolon represents a sentence the author could have ended, but choose not to. That author is you and the sentence is your life."
It is not an end. a new beginning but with a connection to the past. Like my post surgery a new life after my eating disorders put me there..below is a refresher link to the blog story if you have not read my story... will help you understand how I ended up with an angry colon with holes and secret pockets and a commitment to the semicolon symbol.
http://liamlicks.blogspot.com/2016/10/it-began-with-three-numbers.html

 I chose one a friend had found. Here it is on paper. 

OPEN HEART, SEMICOLON

I wanted my initial and my father's both Cs, a suggestion from another friend... the open heart could be viewed as a double C.
and on me

ON MY WRIST

I began a new Pinterest board to collect tattoos. Here is my board. Our tattoos are included with those I have pinned from other boards
https://www.pinterest.com/cbiz50/tattoos/?eq=tattoo&etslf=19690

The blog is LiamLicks and Liam wanted in on it. I took a series of hand selfies against Liam, in black and white...so as not to distract from my semicolon tattoo. I tried to do closed wrist to eliminate wrinkles and arthritic knuckles but it appeared like a weird fist bump with an altogether different message. Decided open hand worked better
Here follows the photo shoot

LIAM LICKING

LIAM LOOKING

LIAM TO THE LEFT

LIAM TO THE RIGHT

This blog story is at its end; my story is not over yet.

Thanks to my surgeon, her team, LIJ and home nurse aide Kim

Woof, Woof