Why me?

Poor Rhoda has to wear an Elizabethan-collar (e-collar) to protect the stitches in her head from surgery. She absoultely despises the thing and we can't convince her it's for the best. So, she keeps giving me these pitiful looks, why mommy, why me?
But isn't she beautiful anyway, especially with the tumor gone! Now if we can both survive the rest of recovery...