Perspective: The scar that reminds me how fatherhood made me a better person
By Jared Bilski March 8 It looks like a cowboy boot. The brand — or intentional third-degree burn — on my left shoulder looks like a cowboy boot made of noticeably raised scar tissue. The ridged, pinkish mess of irreparable skin and tissue even has a divot right around the area you’d find a cute design on an actual cowboy boot.
More than a decade after the branding, I married a nurse who just so happened to work on a burn unit. She told me the brand should've gotten infected, which could've easily led to sepsis and, under the right set of circumstances, even death. It's one of the many times things could've gone much, much worse for me. Instead, I walked away from the coat-hanger incident with nothing but a scar and story — exactly the way I preferred to walk away from things.“Oh no, Daddy.
During the most difficult moments of my new life as a dad, my children's tiny little faces are like mirrors. Their infinitely innocent and trusting expressions seem to reflect my greatest fears and insecurities about fatherhood right back at me.
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