A boy and his scar...

While at the pool yesterday, I noticed Isaac kept putting his arms over his scar from his liver transplant.  He was playing with some older boys that he had never played with before.  I was wishing I could be a little fly and go over and listen and rescue if anyone would happen to say something not nice about the scar.  First, I decided being a fly might not be a good idea since a fly couldn't actually rescue anyone :)  Then I decided as a mom just to watch from a far and let my 7 year old handle it. 

So I watched, and as Isaac and another boy were standing by the side of the pool ready to jump in, Isaac lifted his arms off his scar and the boy said something to him.  Isaac looked down at his scar and the boy leaned over to get a very close look.   Then that was it and they jumped into the pool and Isaac didn't cover it again.  Later (since I was so curious), I asked Isaac what the boy was saying about his scar.  Isaac in a matter of fact way said he was just asking me how I got it.  I said "Well, what did you say?"  and he replied in a way like it was just an everyday thing "From a liver transplant." When he said that I breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

Sometimes it's the moms of the kids with health issues whose lives have been changed and the kids just view it all as normal because that is all they know.