Painter Sam
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Woman artist. Amputee painter. Meningitis Survivor. Paint people, pets and cities! www.PainterSam.com and PainterSam on Instagram! “I am not sick. I am broken.
04/17/2026
My scars define me.
I wasn’t born with them. I earned them at 9 months old when I barely survived bacterial meningitis.
For a long time, I tried to hide them.
The younger version of me did everything she could not to be seen.
But people looked anyway.
They stared. They wondered. And I felt every bit of it.
So I had a choice.
I could spend my life being something people stare at… Or become someone they learn from.
My scars, my missing fingers, my limp…
they’re not separate from me.
They are me. And at 50, I’m not hiding anymore.
If you’ve ever felt “different” or tried to shrink yourself to make others comfortable… I see you.
You don’t have to hide either.
In the right eyes, you will always be art.
They will look at you like you’re a masterpiece hung in a gallery they’ve been searching for their entire lives.
What others call chaos, they will call abstract beauty.
What others labeled broken, they will recognize as mosaic.
Intentional fragments creating something whole.
Your scars won’t be damage to them, but brushstrokes of survival… evidence of a soul that refused to be erased.
Your darkness won’t be something to fix,
but depth and dimension — the shadows that make the light more luminous.
In the wrong eyes you were always too much.
Too intense.
Too complicated.
Too difficult to understand.
A language they never bothered to learn.
But in the right eyes, you are poetry they want to memorize.
A song they never want to end.
A constellation they could study forever and still find new stars.
In the right eyes you are not a rough draft waiting to be edited.
You are the final piece.
Raw.
Real.
And absolutely breathtaking, exactly as you are.
Accountability request! Ask me if I showed up to my appointment!
I have a mammogram scheduled tomorrow.
Woo, I am guilty of skipping them.
My excuses are sneaky!
Life got so busy! But really fear crept in.
And even though the words “Breast Cancer” scare me. We all know early detection saves lives. So if you’re like me and need someone to push you towards that scan—
This is your sign! And please!
Hold me accountable.
10/07/2025
Remembering our Jonas today. October 7 will always be the day that changed our story forever.
Much love to the many families who have felt this kind of loss. And endless gratitude to those who have one of my butterflies. Thank you for giving me a platform to give back in his honor.
I am forever grateful for the courage and strength this journey has given me and for the many ways it changed my path forever.
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