I'm an Amazon Woman

I'm an Amazon woman. Looking at me it would be hard to believe because I'm short and not over weight. I'm also pushing 81 and cannot shoot a bow and arrow as the original Amazon women warriors did. 

The reason?

I had my right breast loped off after it hosted a cancer that wanted to kill me. I wrote about it in a blog, https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/1226032995833212099 and a book The Cockeyed Nipple which was written for Anglo women in Geneva who were going through breast cancer and didn't speak French. Cancer is scary enough in a mother tongue never mind a language one doesn't speak.

When I saw the wooden Amazon woman made of branches, I had to use it for my Facebook photo.

This year my husband was playing with AI and came up with a drawing of me. He prompted it with white short hair, glasses, sitting on a bed, laptop and butterflies. He wanted the butterflies on the computer because I decorated my laptop with butterflies so it wouldn't be boring black. A cheery laptop helps motivate me in writing.

I retired the Amazon woman from my Facebook page. My husband's version is more relevant. After all, I just got a seven-year bill of health at my last cancer checkup. 

However my right breast is still missing and I still am garbage with a bow and arrow and that is okay. Each day has been a gift.