Since you can't change that, all you can do and have to do is to cover the wound by patches and try your best to make a most beautiful flower on the wound, and that is what life teaches us.

For several weeks Gage had headaches, and infection set in to the wound, nearly taking his life.

It was a minor incision (later, she had surgery to remove the scar), but it's easy to think of it as some kind of war wound for a life lived so magnificently.