{"id":1937,"date":"2010-01-21T22:07:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T03:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2010-01-21T23:14:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T04:14:33","slug":"karen-answers-loretta-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Loretta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span>Comment by Loretta on 15 Jan 2010 at 12:09 pm <\/span><\/em><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Karen, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Can you please post a picture of you with the tumor written about in the book? I am a student and thought it would be cool to see that? Thank you. You are phenomenal. Your courage and strength here and on facebook inspire me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> Loretta\u2028, Jackson, TN<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Dear Loretta,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>My tumor was not that interesting. It covered part of one eye and protruded outward and was a non-appealing facial deformity. The tumor went though my eye socket and rested on the outer layer of my brain. It was removed just before my second birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>My parents often kept me hidden to avoid stares and questions. My parents also led me to believe that I would die at an early age because of the tumor. As an adult, I learned my tumor was benign, not life threatening, and would never have caused my death. It simply wasn&#8217;t nice to look at.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I have one picture of me at 16 months, before my tumor reached it&#8217;s full growth, that I will post on my Facebook profile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Thank you for your curiosity. Please know that what&#8217;s important is not the fact that I had this facial deformity, caused by a benign tumor; it&#8217;s the fact that my parents chose to use my tumor as a way to control and abuse me. Throughout my childhood, I was led to believe my tumor and surgery caused all their financial woes and I owed them for that. That was abuse in itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Karen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Loretta on 15 Jan 2010 at 12:09 pm Karen, Can you please post a picture of you with the tumor written about in the book? I am a student and thought it would be cool to see that? Thank you. You are phenomenal. Your courage and strength here and on facebook inspire me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karens-answers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}