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One Year Ago Today.

dog-bite-chronicles

While moving archives from the old blog host to the new, Bossy compiled a category of posts she likes to call The Dog Bite Chronicles. Actually Bossy doesn’t like to call them The Dog Bite Chronicles, in fact she hates it — but that’s what they are.

The Dog Bite Chronicles were made necessary one year ago today, on the day Bossy’s family likes to call The Incident. Actually Bossy’s family doesn’t like to call it The Incident, considering they’d much prefer to call it The Day Nothing Happened, or The Day The Family Napped And Watched Oprah.

But an incident was what it was, except worse and covered with fear and stitches and shock and anger.

Bossy’s daughter was being a Good Samaritan after school by offering to deliver a small child from the bus stop to her front porch. Bossy’s daughter barely had time to notice the screen door flung open by a challenged grandmother, when the growling dog behind the door lunged in her direction, removing Bossy’s daughter’s upper lip in one chunk.

The Dog Bite Chronicles begin with this family emergency, and move chronologically through the process of a lip graft recovery, a journey that is not yet complete and will require future revisions.

But it was in the compilation of these chronicles that Bossy realized something she sort of knew but never put to words: Bossy’s daughter is the bravest person she knows.

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From close to fifty stitches stoically endured right under her nose, to the pain and inconvenience of an injury that altered eating and drinking and talking and breathing during what normally is a festive season, to six weeks of constant bandaging and treatment of the wound she didn’t want to see while probably imagining the worst, to the round-the-clock management of this scarring every day since, which amounts to unending application of goos and salves and sunblock that glisten from across a large room, to the unknowns about the future of her mouth and its shape and consistency, never once complaining or grieving, never once being self-conscious or surrendering
to vanity.

So consider this Bossy’s very first Awesome Appreciation Day. Care to share with Bossy someone awesome?

And in honor of Bossy’s awesome readers, stay very close for a giveaway to end all Bossy giveaways. Except she hopes it doesn’t actually end Bossy’s giveaways. You know.

pure-potential

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  3. I knew a kid who skipped his high school graduation because he had a dog bite and it took 8 stiches. Only 8! He had a tiny bandaid and missed one of those defining moments that you are supposed to remember forever. Then again, I have trouble showing my face in public on a bad hair day. Your daughter took much worse and is so much better! At 30 I strive to be the adult that she is some day! Then again, with her eyes, she could have another head growing out of her neck and no one would notice! They’re too gorgeous!

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  4. “I am pure potential” —the perfect shirt for this girl! Yes, she is very brave and awesome!

    My most awesome, brave, inspirational person is also my daughter. She has been through one of the worst experiences that I can imagine. She amazes me at every turn.

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  6. Bossy’s daughter is not only pure potential, she is PURE BEAUTY.

    A blogger’s daughter was born March 24. His wife died March 25. He is raising his daughter as a single Dad. I don’t think he knows how awesome he is . He’s taking it one day at a time. He’s one of my heroes.

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  10. I’m so glad I don’t have to limit this to ten words. (though that’s a fun exercise)

    Bossy’s daughter is awesome, as is Bossy and her whole family.

    My sister is awesome – She’s raising her daughter’s child as her own PLUS her son just got back from Iraq and she held it together while he was gone, when his new wife gave birth. She and her husband had their daughter when they were 17 – 17!! – and 30 years later, they’re still together.

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  11. There are so many moms I admire for the sacrifices they make for their children and family as a whole, I could never pick just one. 🙂

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  13. Bossy and her daughter are both awesome! I stumbled upon Bossy shortly before The Incident and have been following ever since.
    To share more Awesome: At church there is a little boy who lost most of his feet and hands to an infection when he was about two years old. He and his family are a true inspiration and example of indomitable human spirit.

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  14. She as inspiring as she is beautiful. And I like her taste in clothes.

    My awesome person would be my assistant, who goes above and beyond each and every day.

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  15. Bossy’s daughter is beautiful!

    Awesome appreciation? About two months after Mr. S and I started dating, he noticed what most people notice two seconds after meeting me – I have a congenital vision disability. He went home and patched one eye for the weekend so he could see the world the way I do. We’ve been married fourteen years now. Mr. S is awesome!

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  16. Bossy’s daughter is awesome potential!

    I vote also for my friends Anita and Katherine. Their brave battle with breast cancer, their devotion to their daughters and their willingness to hang on despite pain is the ultimate gift of love.

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  19. Bossy’s daughter is one of my favorite people in the world and there is no doubt in my mind that she will change the world. She has already changed the hearts of all Bossy’s readers.

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  20. It was awful for me to remember back on that day….I can not imagine how horrible it must be for you ;o(

    I’m tearing up now.

    Your daughter is amazing and lovely and inspirational!

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  21. God what a gorgeous child – and it’s the soul coming through those beautiful eyes that makes me say that! Love the shirt, too. FANTASTIC picture, Bossy (camera? which one?)

    I have many awesome people. In fact, I’ve slowly jettisoned the non-awesome ones and pretty much *only * know awesome ones. They make me want to be better than I am – just hope they don’t jettison ME!

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  24. I’m with everyone else: Bossy’s daughter is amazing, and seems to be handling this pretty well. She *is* pure potential, as are we all.

    One thing that is amazing in my life is that a friend of mine has offered me his home in Florida for three weeks, so I don’t have to flounder about in the godforsaken Chicago winter while I’m on January break from grad school. Take that, seasonal affective disorder!

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  25. Bravo Bossy’s daughter. Keep on keepin’ on!

    My most awesome person passed away almost 16 years ago this month. He was a fantastic father, husband and man. A true gem. When life handed him A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) in his late 50’s, he was brave…no he was valiant as he tried treatments, ate well, exercised religiously, tried to sleep, prayed quietly, remained a polite although inquisitive patient and never forgot he was in fact a father, husband and friend to others.

    That man was my father and had he lived he would be celebrating his 82nd birthday this weekend. Happy Birthday, Dad. I miss you every day.

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  29. the word for bossy’s daughter’s kind of brave and grace hasn’t been invented yet.

    my brother is like that. DO NOT tell him i said that though.

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  30. I eleventy-millionth the motion to nominate Bossy’s Daughter for Awesome Appreciation Day.

    Also, I have a friend from college who is raising his two small kids practically on his own, his 5 y.o. son has been undergoing chemo and just had surgery for a rare form of kidney cancer, and my friend just lost his job. But you know what? The dude always sounds so positive on the phone, still laughs and finds the good, and does what needs to get done. That’s grace.

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  32. Compared to Bossy’s daughter, it’s hard to think of someone equally awesome, however, allow me to nominate the members of our military – all branches, all duty stations – *and* their families, particularlly the ones who will be alone during this holiday season.

    p.s. run-on sentence, much?

    p.p.s. Bossy’s daughter is beautiful, inside and out!

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  36. You are a tough Cookie!!!
    Thats what my GrandMa would say
    every time I walked out of the E.R.!!!
    That was about 2 a month or so…
    I can walk just fine…
    I was just a Dare Devil and went over 150%
    all the time till I was about 25…
    Now @ 31 I have slowed down Sooooooooooo
    much too many broken bones and stitches and
    now I have a Daughter…
    You are a Tough Cookie!!!
    Keep wearing that smile with pride!!!
    Rachel

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  38. My son’s teacher is awesome. It takes a very special person to work so hard with kids with special needs and she doesn’t even blink. She goes above and beyond and then some. She is awesome, too, because her own kids have severed learning disabilities and she takes it all in strdie.

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  39. I was just thinking that it must be close to a year since the incident. She is healing beautifully.
    Bossy’s daughter is brave and strong and lovely.
    She is also lucky to be surrounded by so many family and friends who love and support her.

    I second Linda M. All of our military members serving overseas, in harm’s way during this holiday season.
    Go here: http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1280.html
    it takes a couple of seconds to say thanks!

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  40. I have to add my voice to the chorus of the “Bossy’s Daughter is Awesome” club. She is such a strong spirit and so beautiful!

    And has it really been a year? Accck. That ol’ time flying thing. Seems like a couple months ago.

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  41. She is PURE potential. Except for part that’s already been realized.

    Awesome? A married couple — friends of mine — who are persevering through severe mismatch of inclinations and who are working valiantly to create the best of marriages. It’s so private and I feel privileged to be one of a very few who get to see this in the works.

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  42. That little petunia of yours, what a gorgeous beautiful girl!

    I am sooo proud of her and how brave and lovely she is.
    She ISSSSS pure potential!
    you are a lucky woman yourself, and YOU ought to be mightily proud of raising such a generator of wonderfulness, and selflessnessss, Bossy, I am glad to know your family. Even if, I really dont know you at all.

    your friend at the beach
    Lisa
    coastal nest

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  43. I think Bossy’s daughter is awesome also! I just think the “eyebrow thing” she does is so adorable! With the support of her Bossy Family, she just kept on going! I guess the entire Bossy Family is awesome too!!!! Oh and adorable!!!!

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  45. She is so lovely… I have followed her recovery with my heart in my throat, Bossy. I totally understand why she is your hero.

    Mine is my cousin Trish. I grew up with her. And she has cystic fibrosis. CF was long considered a children’s disease, because most who had it died as children. Trish’s older sister also had it, and died when she was ten. Trish is six months younger than I, which means she will be 44 on her next birthday. She’s an extraordinary calligrapher, a brilliant cook, a wonderful wife, a world traveler, a loving and loyal friend, and absolutely the bravest woman I know. She’s lived with a death sentence for over four decades, watching as much younger friends lost their battles with the disease. She wakes up every day fighting for breath, and still manages to bring sunshine into every life she touches. That is why she is my hero.

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  46. Dear Bossy,
    I have never commented on your blog but, I started reading it because someone said something on another blog I read about your daughter accident. I have been lurking ever since. I am grateful your daughter has recovered and hope that every thing continues to go well.

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  47. I think my son is brave. He was born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate. He has had well over 10 surgeries in his young 8 year old life but like Bossys fabulous daughter has never not even once said why me. He talks to his friends at school about it like no big deal. The kid wont even take pain meds after his surgeries for cripes sake. I am sure your daughters revision will go as swimmingly as my sons. He barely has any scare at all, which is cool since he had no connection at there when he was born. I say he is my hero and he is pretty freaking awesome.

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  49. I must have started reading Bossy after the incident, because being someone who has had two traumatic dog incidents, the second being the reasoning behind the “jaw being wired shut”.
    I just want to say that Bossy’s daughter is ultimately beautiful and strong on so many levels and I’m happy to see that her smile is contagious and lovely and hope that someday she will look back at the incident without any suffering.

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  51. First, I would like to say how much I admire Bossy’s daughter. At more than twice her age, I can say with absolute assuredness that I would have handled the situation with considerable less grace.

    For my awesome nomination, I would like to mention my coworker, Blake, who just this morning caught the cricket that has been driving me to the brink of insanity for more than two weeks. I know this might seem pale in comparison to the nominations above, but believe me, it means the world to me! 🙂

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  52. Bossy’s daughter’s awesomeness reminds me of my daughter.
    A daughter who has also faced going deaf without complaining and who has thrived in her own awesomeness.
    Thanks Bossy for making me remember another reason why our kids are so awesome!!

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  56. “I am pure potential.”

    YESSSSSSSS.

    Thanks for this lump in my throat, Bossy, now I cannot eat my sammich! More power to your courageous and beautiful girl, and to you for helping her develop that un-self-consciousness and strength.

    My Awesome is my mother, for way too many reasons to write here.

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  57. And it is with this post that you remind Kirsten she has been reading Bossy for over 1 year… because Kirsten remembers the “incident that shall not be again mentioned other than fluffy kitties and cotton candy” happening and reading and hoping that Bossy’s daughter would be ok.

    And that means that Kirsten has had a year of reading the awesomeness that is Bossy, and that makes Kirsten happy.

    Bossy’s daughter is beautiful and brave. Just like momma.

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  60. I’m kind of thinking the ENTIRE Bossy family is awesome. From the awesome parents to the awesome Columbia student to the amazing awesome daughter. You guys have done an awesome job all around.

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  61. Hi Bossy! And Bossy’s daughter – who is most definitely AWESOME.

    I know someone who is truly awesome and who blows me away on a daily basis. The way you describe your daughter and her strength reminds me so much of my nominee.

    She is one of my best and oldest friends, Danielle. For the past 12 years she’s been living with lupus – which, for the most part, has been under control. Over the past year, however, her health has taken a turn …. In the past 6 months she’s undergone multiple surgeries – including most recently having her spleen removed. She’s been diagnosed with cancer twice – and had that diagnosis taken back both times. Despite all the surgeries, all the cancer scares, all the hospital stays (which are sadly very often), I have never ONCE heard this girl complain. NOT ONCE. She’s never said “Why me?”. She is probably the strongest and most brave person I know and I love her very much.

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  62. I totally understand wanting to call this day “The Day Nothing Happened”. Been there, done that – twice.

    I’d like to nominate my own daughter as an awesomely brave person. At 2 she got infected by the bad e.coli and spent 3 weeks in the hospital, half of that in PICU with kidney failure, seizures and lots of nastiness. It took a year to be certain, but she came out fine. Then at 4 she accidentally got run over by a big riding lawnmower and lost the 2 outside toes on her left foot. (and I say “lost” because we never found them) and got both knees badly torn up. That time it was 2 weeks in the hospital and 6 surgeries, and she took it all in stride (no pun intended).

    To me, she defines awesome – not because she went through that hell but because she did it without letting it slow her down or change her attitude about taking on the world. In the ambulance on the way to the hospital after the Second Day Nothing Happened At Our House (except the lawnmower thing), the morphine had kicked in and while she was feeling no pain, her mother was a total sobbing wreck. She took her mother’s hand and said, “Mom! You don’t have to cry. I’m not DEAD you know.” She’s 7 now and hasn’t slowed down a bit.

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  63. I would support changing your last name to Awesome, because it does seem like your whole family is just filled with awesomeness.

    I, however, am also an awesome person. Just because.

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  64. I’m trying to find a way to say this without sounded patronizing. But I can’t. So I will just say it: Bossy’s daughter not only looks fine with the scar, she rocks the scar. She owns the scar. She is not beautiful despite the scar. Like that Padma chick from Top Chef, she is beautiful with the scar.

    Rock on, Bossy’s daughter. Scars show you have lived.

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  66. Well, I might just be nearly crying right now. MAYBE. But that is only because your daughter is amazing and reminds me so much of my little sister and also reminds me how much I am missing my little sister right now. Theresa (babycarrot sister) was also bitten in the lip by a dog (a hot Dalmatian left in a car, that she was told was friendly when she asked if she could pet him), and she also had stitches and now has a scar, though it is slight, but her fear of dogs was a bit more pronounced. The mace she runs with? Is for dogs, not people. The fear has since lessened and she loves Iggy, but that may be largely due to the fact that Iggy is too “special” not to love.

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  68. 3 weeks before my sisters 2nd Birthday she received 2nd and 3rd degree burns on her back, ear and elbow. She has had skin grafts and plastic surgery, which resulted in more scarring.
    She graduates college with her Bachelors next Friday.

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  69. I have a big ole lump in my throat just thinking about the awesomeness that is Bossy’s daughter. The day of The Incident was a terrible day. Can good come out of bad? I want to believe that it can.

    My candidates for awesomeness are my two nephews, 19 and 21 years old, who were born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. And also their parents who provide their around-the-clock care with bottomless love and devotion.

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  70. Sounds like a lot of us may have tuned in to your blog about the same time a year ago, and I may already have mentioned this in earlier comments around the time of That Awful Incident… in our family it all started with The Phone Call. Oldest son was being airlifted from a mountain biking accident… “He looks pretty bad” (oh my!) Sparing the very gory details, let’s fast-forward to several years later now. His face (fully-involved — teeth, nose, eyes, mouth…) has almost fully recovered, and like your stunningly beautiful daughter, it’s all about the smile. Those awesome kids of ours? Every single one of ’em are simply amazing.

    Bossy’s daughter? She glows!

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  71. Bossy’s daughter is gorgeous.
    And I love her shirt in the last photo.

    I’m hope the incident hasn’t ruined dogs for her. I’m sure Stella helps keep that at bay. I’ve actually had two Incidents With Dogs myself, and everyone is always so surprised I still love dogs. I’m so surprised they think I wouldn’t anymore. I mean, way more than two people have wronged me in my life, and I haven’t sworn off people.

    Happy Awesome Appreciation Day, Bossy’s Daughter, and everyone else.

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  74. This is actually how I discovered your blog, Bossy. Another blogger had posted about what happened to your daughter and I came over to read about it…and got sucked in for a year now. I’m glad she is ok.

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  75. Your daughter is so lovely, and she has the most beautiful eyes.

    I nominate the “guys” I work with. I work in a nursing home for mentally retarded adults. I watch them struggle to do everything that we take for granted, walking, eating, making themselves understood, and yet they are always open and ready to laugh and be silly.

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  76. Yes. Bossy’s daughter is AWESOME.

    My daughter, not so much. Took 3 of us to hold the Damn Emo down for a blood test. She cried hysterically the whole time and then requested candy when it was all over.

    Damn Emo is seventeen.

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  78. What an awesome beauty with such strength and clarity in those eyes. How blessed you are. Thanks for sharing “the incident.” I’m too new here to have known about it. Wow.

    I know a young girl who is so so brave too. She’s only 3 but she was born brave. The powers on earth guessed she wouldn’t make it but her mama and this little one’s faithful soul showed everyone where true bravery will get you. My dear friend was a guest blogger Thanksgiving week and told this courageous story on MWOB.

    The strength of children is awe-inspiring.

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  79. Bossy’s daughter is not only beautiful, but amazing as well.

    My best friend Jenni is amazing. At teh age of nineteen, she married a man and birthed a child. The same man cheated on her with eight different wome during their three year marriage. Jenni left, then discovered she was pregnant with baby number two. Jenni found a full time job, started going to school for accounting, then moved to another town, where she had her home broken into twice, her car vandalized, followed at work… Eventually, her daughters began visitation with their dad, and on Jenni’s 23rd birthday, her daughter told her mother she’d been abused by her dad. Her daugther’s age? Three. After countless hours of interviewing Jenni, Sami, and other family members, DHS pressed charges. Sami began therapy and could draw pictures of body parts nothing like her own. She wrote letters to her dad that she loved him, but asked him stop doing bad things to her, but she specified those bad things. Since Sami had not been interviewed by a police officer, the judge threw out the abuse charges and their dad regained unsupervised visits. Jenni had a nervous breakdown and lost her job. Jenni then found a way to pull herself back up. She began dating a good man, and she quit her part-time accounting job and moved to be near him, where she found a full time job. Then… she was laid of. Then…. she found out she was pregnant. Two weeks ago, she miscarried. But she is going so well… and is still an amazing mother, still going to school, looking for a job….

    My best friend is a rockstar.

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  84. You know, with those sparkling loving eyes, in a couple of years nobody will notice the scar on her lips. She really shines as a beautiful person even on this medium.

    While we’re giving out awesomeness awards, I’d like to nominate my own daughter who just turned 6 1/2 and is the most awesome survivor of 3 open heart surgeries. She has never given up on life and the fullness it has to offer.

    But really, arent’ so many people awesome?

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  85. Am just reading the rest of the stories since I checked in this morning.

    I am filled with awe at all the resilient people described here.

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  87. in addition to the Awesomeness that is the Bossy Household, I would like to say that the readers of my blog, and my friends, and my family are so Full of Awesome they might explode at any moment.

    Happy Weekend Everybody. *smooches*

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  88. This kid is definately worthy of the most awesome I’ve yet to know. All the things that Bossy said and then some. It gave us all pause….her grace during a most horrendous period helped sooth all her family members.

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  89. I happened to click on your blog for the very first time on the very first day you recounted this story. I haven’t missed a day since. It fills me with relief to see a smiling Bossy’s Daughter everytime she appears.

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  90. I don’t need to go to the archives. I remember this so well, and I have not been able to chop an onion the same way ever since.

    I would like to share appreciation for my awesome son. Through many surgeries, procedures and one chopped-off fingertip (Bossy, we will always have Indy…), he has always been a tough, little guy. Big kisses to my little boy and to Bossy’s daughter for being HUGE inspirations.

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  92. Oh Bossy, I’m crying here. *fans eyes with hand* She is such a beautiful girl, Bossy’s daughter. Nothing is more heart wrenching that watching your child hurt.

    My Lucas is awesome. He’s six, he has CP, and epilepsy. Had more hospital stays in a year than most people have in five lifetimes. The only plane he’s ever been on with me was a medi-flight…three times. His smile is like the gravitational pull of the sun, and he’s the happiest child I know to spite the mountains he must climb daily.

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  93. Oh sweetie, she looks so cool and lovely – I hated all those posts, couldn’t quite bear it. Glad it’s a year in the past and getting further away.

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  94. When my daughter was about 9 months old, I bought her a shirt that said “I am my own hero.”

    Well, she’s mine. She was born without an ear or ear canal. She’s 6 now, and just finished her last reconstructive surgery. She’s endured some really tough stuff for a kid who’s not even seven years old, and yet her joyous spirit keeps just bubbling up to the top and spilling out all over all of us.

    Bossy’s daughter IS brave. So is mine: http://kelleysearsurgery.blogspot.com

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  98. Lil’ Bossy is breathtaking. How proud your whole family must be – such a cool photo – I really see the wisdom and maturity in her eyes. What a change from last year!!!
    You really are blessed – hug her tight!

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  101. My 3rd grade class is currently studying heroes. A hero doesn’t need superpowers. She stands up in the face of adversity, is brave, trustworthy and helps others. Bossy’s daughter is a hero.

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  102. My awesome award would have to be shared by Bossy’s daughter and the person who had the presence of mind to hunt down the missing lip before heading off to ER. Not to mention the driver and the boy who held his sister’s hand during surgery.

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  103. Bossy’s daughter is awesome!!! Heroes I also admire: my parents–they are ever giving and believing in me, my daughter loves life and lives life to the fullest and my husband who runs into burning buildings when people are running out (he’s been a volunteer fireman for 21 years) and loves me no matter what.

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  104. I didn’t know Bossy a year ago, thus was unaware of The Incident. I realized the Good Samaritan was a very beautiful, talented performer. Now I am in awe of her bravery and pure potential. Best wishes for you all.

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  105. I actually found your blog because Ree mentioned your daughter’s injury on her blog. I love seeing how well she has come through the last year and as a Mom, I can only imagine how it must have been for you – to see her suffer for no reason at all.

    Heroes? Cliche though it may be, my own daughters – one as she serves gladly in Iraq and the other for what a great Mom she is and the beautiful, caring and amazing adults each of them have become.

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  106. Princess Boss-let is a beauty inside and outside.

    Awesomeness: my SF friends who pitched in for our family project of furnishing a complete apartment for a returning Iraq war vet.

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  108. bossy daughter’s eyes are the most wonderful eyes. i mean, she’s awesomeness through and through.

    i’m too tired to think of awesome people. but i know they’re out there.

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  109. I was badly burned when I was 7 years old and had to have a skingraft on my leg. I remember the salves and the scar management very well, and I am still religious about putting sunblock on my (very large) scar. Lil Bossy is a beautiful, beautiful brave girl. And I am really glad to hear how well she is taking care of herself. All those salves and lotions seem like a pain in the ass now, but it is worth it.

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  111. I was out with friends of Bossy a few days after the incident, which they recounted to me. I didn’t know Bossy a year ago. Hearing the story and hearing the part about how Bossy RETRIEVED THE MISSING PIECE OF HER DAUGHTER was pretty awe-inspiring for me. Bossy sounded to me a bit like the incredible hulk in this story, motivated by love to have amazing courage and fortitude.

    Then I had a few drinks, because. Damn.

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  112. Bossy, your ability with words, even while going through the horrible cleanse…Amazes me. Thanks for putting it out there every day.

    My awesome person? My boy. He was diagnosed with Leukemia when he was 2, and received treatment until he was 5. The chemotherapy saved his life, but the chemicals actually caused great brain injury. This makes being in middle school more difficult than it needs to be. He handles his difficulties better than I could.

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  113. Bossy’s daughter is amazing, and I’m grateful that you shared the story when it started this year.

    Amazing people: No heroes come to mind, but I’m surrounded by people who are nice [a side of snark, sure, but genuinely nice nonetheless]. And when I type that it sounds trivial, but in reality there’s nothing better, simple though it may be.

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  114. This happened to me with my sister’s dog 4 Christmas’s ago! I completely understand your daughter’s pain! (And, you can best believe I am sending this post to my sister)…..Hey, what a trooper your daughter is! Tell her that scar will get her far when she get’s to be dating age. Women practically swoon over mine! 😉 And, instead of telling them it was from a dog I say a knife fight in Detroit. (Even though I have never been to Detroit)

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  115. Bossy jr is awesome!!! Love the t-shirt.

    One of the awesome people in my life is my 94 year old grandmother. She raised 6 kids and was a teacher for years, starting in a one room schoolhouse eventually becoming vice principal. She got her Master’s degree in her 60’s because she always wanted to get it. Retired a year or two later. Was windowed over 25 yrs ago and lived by herself in her house up until a month ago. Rather than moving in with one of her kids, she just moved into an apartment at a senior’s center. She goes to church everyday and pretty much always has a smile on her face.

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  116. She IS pure potential, and beautiful. My mom is awesome- dropped everything just to be in a waiting room in case I needed her- for SIX weeks. Unbelievable.

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  117. Bossy, your daughter is amazing & beautiful-inside and outside! I am sure she learned from this challenging lesson and is better b/c or it.

    My son Dallas is amazing! He has had a facial birthmark and when he started first grade, he had a very tough year. The kids stared, teased and laughed at him. He was so self conscious. I told him when someone looks or stares or asks about it tell them that it makes you special. I know it sounds corny, but it’s true. One day while we were out shopping I noticed a kid staring as we stood in line. The kid asked his mom about it and Dallas turned around and proudly told them that it was a birthmark and it makes me special. I almost cried. He’s in 6th grade now and it doesn’t bother him at all.

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  119. Oh, and I hit post before nominating my hero – my own daughter who, at age 11, is just getting over dislocating her knee TWICE within a year and didn’t complain about missing going out to trick or treat AGAIN, and having to do days upon days upon weeks of physical therapy and having the looming specter of possible knee surgery in her future.

    Kids are fucking awesome.

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  122. What an amazing person Bossy’s daughter is! My best girlfriend Leana is the most amazing person I know. Even after, nearly, witnessing her father commit suicide in high school, she has grown to be an amazing, caring, brave woman. She is my hero!

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  123. Here’s to beautiful daughters, to brave girls that grow up to be special women and here’s to Mothers who teach and love but above all celebrate.

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  125. I’m so pleased that your daughter seems to have accepted the trauma and is looking beautiful as ever. When you look back doesn’t it seem like this must have happened to someone else and not your child?

    Blessings and continued success with the surgeries.

    Dorothy from grammology
    grammology.com

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  126. Bossy’s daughter ROCKS!! She is a beautiful soul, inside and out and no scar could possibly obscure that beauty! “Pure potential” is the truth, man!!! You go, little girl!

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  129. Hey Bossy,
    My daughter was bitten by our dog on June 29, 2007, we call it “Black Friday.” The bite went into her mouth and into the eye socket but luckily missed her eyeball. She braved too many stitches to count, needles, bruising, infection among other things, not to mention emotional trauma. She was just 7 when it happened. She is my hero. She has healed physically and emotionally. I have shown her pictures of your daughter, and she is glad to see that she has healed so beautifully also.

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  130. She is so absolutely beautiful. Her shirt made me cry, too.

    My daughter is pure awesomeness. She spent her first 4 years of life going through a series of surgeries to reconstruct a flawed heart, but at 11, I see the heart it has become, courageous and beating with so much independence and kindness, and I want mine to be like hers.

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  131. Oh, she is just so cute!

    Today, my husband gets my Awesome Award. He’s a minister, and he does a lot for his congregation without getting much in the way of thanks. This morning, his Mac had a complete meltdown. The arthritis in his foot is acting up and he can barely walk. He’s doing a funeral this afternoon and has to deal with the drama of the estranged family members. And then he’ll work on creating a moving, inspiring Christmas Eve service. I don’t know how he does that in the midst of his own stress, but he does.

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  133. I forgot to mention my hero. My son, diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 14, the kind that diet had nothing to do with. But because everyone says “diabetes” and “weight” together, people don’t differentiate between the two. And so people don’t realize that he was just a healthy athletic kid whose pancreas turned on him. Food having nothing to do with it. So he has to take 4+ shots a day and NOOOO, diet won’t keep that from ever happening. But he carried on, taking 4+ shots, poking his finger, all the while people not knowing the difference between type 1 and type 2 and the media keeping people in the dark.
    (all generalizations, of course… some people know… just not many)

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  136. Hey Bossys darling daughter. I was bit in the face by a Doberman when I was (much) younger. Over time the scars down my nose faded away and the ones through my lip as well. I chose to grow a beard and mustache later in life. You may or may not wish to try that also. Seriously though, It took a lot longer to get over the fear of dobes than to heal.

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  137. There is so much brave in that one little story. I personally know how much it takes to get your confidence back when your baby is hurt – so glad she is getting so much healing…

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  139. I can’t even think of anything original to say — beautiful post, beautiful young lady. I had not yet found Bossy a year ago so thanks for sharing what happened. I was bit in the hand by a dog decades ago and while I don’t even think I got stitches at all, it was still traumatic, so I can’t even imagine. Now ‘scuse me while my heart goes and bursts from hearing about Bossy’s daughter’s bravery and strength. You go, girl!

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  141. I am just beyond impressed by Bossy’s wonderful Daughter. She is such an amazing girl!
    I know that, even at age 28, I would not be able to handle what she has with anything close to that level of maturity. Rock on!
    Here’s hoping for good continued healing!

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  142. She looks absolutely beautiful! So brave, it is amazing.

    I think my mom is awesome. After 25 years of marriage she lost my dad to lung cancer. He was treated at the very same Cancer Center where my mom worked as a nurse. He was cared for by her friends and co-workers. After having to balance working and watching my dad go through the extensive treatments, he passed away (1 week before her birthday).

    Did this deter my mother? No way. She still works at the same cancer center, surrounded by the memories of my father. She shows up every day and never fails to give the best care for her patients. I don’t know how she does it or why she never gave up… but that is why my mother is the most amazingly awesome person I know.

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  144. oh sweet bossy jr. you are most definitely AWESOME!

    most awesome person in my life? my grandmother. you just have to meet her once to know how awesome she truly is!

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  146. Bossy’s daughter-you are incredible, and I hope and pray for my own daughter to grow up just like you. Your smile is beautiful and goes all the way to your eyes. that’s something you can’t fake, so thank you for sharing it with all of us.

    When Bossy’s daughter is MUCH older and allowed to date, I have a boy here who thinks she is “kind of cute.” Trust me, that is high praise coming from the King of Cool.”

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  149. I hope you will tell us someday if the dog’s owners ever acknowledged their responsibility and have done anything to make ammends.

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