The Elephant Girl

As I put Tessa to bed last night I noticed that the bridge of her nose was swollen.
“You have a big nose,” I told her.
“Like YOU?!” she replied.
I was unsure how to take that comment.


This morning she awoke with a huge nose, forehead and her right eye is swollen shut.
Today is picture day as school. Tessa looks like an offspring of the elephant man.

“I can’t go to school. The other kids will laugh at me.”
That’s when grandma walked in, saw Tessa and started to laugh.

She later told the doctor, "My eye is swallowed."