Overheard

Over spring break we went back to the island to visit. We thought we'd check out the Royal BC Museum and be tourists, and they happened to have a special exhibit on Terry Fox. For any Americans reading this blog, Terry Fox is revered in Canada as a hero. He was diagnosed with cancer  in his leg in the late 70's and had to have it amputated. In 1980 he decided to attempt to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. He made it from Newfoundland to Thunder Bay Ontario, where he had to stop as the cancer had returned. He died in 1981.

I explained all of this to Adam, who is too young to have learned about him in school. Adam went through the exhibit enthralled by the different things to see, but most especially by Terry's prosthetic leg.

Adam is always inquisitive, always thinking, and sometimes a little bit phallic. At the end he looked at me and asked "mom, what if Terry had had Cancer in his penis?". I told him that that doesn't happen very often and luckily he didn't. His response "yeah. Otherwise he would have had to have a METAL PENIS".

Thanks heavens it never came to that.