Denial

The inside of my purse, after my head was shaved, after I took the “non-essentials” out:

Crowning glory

Many thanks to PdxLeeAnne from the breastcancer.org discussion boards for the video to the Crowning Glory hair-raising drive for Burning Man 2007. My naturopath had mentioned this on Friday, asking me to donate locks of my hair. Heck, donate?! Of course, but now I want to go! If you go to [...]

The scarlet scarf

During this round of chemo feeling better started at day 8. That’s when I started doing normal things like going to the grocery store. Of course, this time I have no hair. Scarves and buffs are my headgear of choice these days, and they’re pretty darned comfortable. In fact, so comfortable that I sometimes [...]

Life in the chemoverse

….is pretty darn slow. Today is day 6 of round #2 - as the nurse said today when I called, I’m almost 1/2 way through with the A/C. Still feel like crap, but actually went to work today, thanks to the miracle of acupuncture. So, things are looking up. Plus it’s [...]

Grand follicular exodus :)

It’s begun! Running my hand through my short, short hair and it comes out….YIKES. Off to shower in a bit once Mariana is awake and can come over for coffee and support. This is Day 4 of chemo #2, pretty shaky but taking things an hour at a time. My hair [...]

Rites of passage

It was the hair falling out into my breakfast cereal that did it. I wasn’t sure at all about cutting off all of my hair, cutting it shorter than many boys, but then I was eating breakfast and all of a sudden there was hair in my food. And it was my hair. [...]

Shaving my head on the 14th

Many thanks to my cousin Laura for scoring a gorgeous wig for me, and to the hairdresser she works with for styling the wig today. What sweethearts. When I want, I can look like myself - the color and style are amazingly like my own.
I’m set up to have my head shaved [...]

Wig news & gift update

Ok, I think I used a whole week’s worth of whining yesterday - on to better news:
1) More gifts arrived yesterday! A joke book from my friend Mary, and a breast milagro from my mom’s friend Judy. And a few days back, a funny book and two beautiful silk scarves from my mom’s [...]

Chemo - getting sicker to get better

So in order to get really better, to chase down any of those icky cancer cells that may be lurking in my body looking for another place to take hold, I have to get a lot sicker so that in the end I’ll be better. So - deep breath - on May 3 [...]