I've been thinking again of one of my favorite expressions to tell myself. It's from the Brad Pitt zombie movie "World War Z" when the tiny Israeli soldier is bitten and Pitt hacks off her wrist to save her, then has to clean the wound while they are escaping on the airplane. He tells her to "Gut up". Succinct, but the message is received. It makes me smile when I think of the scene. I have that in my mind to help me know I can get through a shot in the eye Wednesday. In fact, it reminds me many people have and are going to undergo worse procedures, and whatever is on your plate, don't turn away, but face it. Pain is a part of life. My daughter had so much worse pain being treated for breast cancer, and so did my friends when they underwent treatment. I'm a wimp by comparison.
Last night we watched "The Day the Earth Stood Still" with Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal. I told my husband afterward I knew Neal had had a dramatic life but couldn't remember details. He looked it up online and gee, she had unbelievable challenges. She was in love with Gary Cooper but he became jealous of Kirk Douglas and hit her though she was innocent, so she left him. She was married to Roald Dahl and one of their children died of measles, and the same year their son was hit by a car and suffered brain damage. Later she had 3 aneurysms, and was in a coma for weeks. She slowly recovered with Dahl by her side. Then he found a younger woman after 30 years of marriage and they divorced. She won an Oscar for "Hud". I hadn't known that. She spent the last two decades of her life raising money for treatment centers for rehabilitation and died at 84. Amazing life, and she said she owed it all to being stubborn. I would say she took the idea of "gut up" to heart.
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