As many of you already know both my parents had brain surgery within the last year. Each for different reasons and each with completely different side effects and rehabilitation afterwards. One of side effects my mom is still working on to this day is her speech. When she got out of surgery she tried to talk in sentences but often said the word she was thinking about...so we heard 'Walgreens' and 'Creamer' a lot. She couldn't say our names at first (tear. you can imagine how heartbreaking that was). Well one day while both my sisters where at the hospital my mom asked them where I was, instead of saying Shelly she said Ming. And she continued to call me Ming for a good week. She couldn't say my name! How the hell Ming came out of Shelly none of us know.
Her surgery was in July, my dad's was in October. My big sister Jenny thought it would be funny to get to my dad and have him call me Ming after his surgery. So, it's an inside family joke that was created in hard times but can always put a smile on our faces.
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