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Mom gets last laugh this time

Posted on November 2, 2013November 20, 2013 By Brody No Comments on Mom gets last laugh this time

This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2013:

The day after Mom became a cyborg, she apparently gained an obscure superpower.

“I smell heat,” she said groggily as she reclined on her bed. Doctor’s orders: a full week of bed rest following surgery to install a defibrillator in her chest. “Is something burning?”

I eyed the white-capped orange bottle of Percocet on the bedside shelf and immediately assumed it was the drugs talking. So I laughed, shook my head and proceeded to joke about it in a Facebook status update.

It felt good to have something to joke about.

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