Chemotherapy is done and I survived. I am still bald, feel like poo but it’s done. Now I start visiting with the radiation oncologist and see what the next step of treatment entails.
Before I start telling you all about the radiation let me tell you a few good things that I found about going through the chemotherapy.
*When you have no hair you save money on shampoo, conditioner, and haircuts.
*When it is time to get ready you do not have to do your hair all you have to do is slip
a wig or turban on.
*If there is one last brownie at the bakery when they see you are sick they always will
give it to you.
*You can make people laugh very easily by wearing your wig sideways, backwards or crooked.
*You can really mess with people you meet by changing your hair every few days.
*When you are driving down the road and there is a kid in the car next to you, you know
how kids always look at the car next to them. Wave and then rip your wig off. The kids
scream and you quickly put it back on before the parents look.
Before you ask, yes I have done these things. I love messing with the kids the most. The expression on their faces is beyond priceless. I had to start laughing about it or I was going to go crazy. Luckily for me I have a husband who is nuts like me and once I even had him tie his t-shirt into a halter top and wear my wig into the video store. He had me laughing the whole time.
Now of course not every day was full of laughter, there probably were more days of crying especially in the beginning but we learned I had to choose between laughing and crying. I made the choice to laugh. I still have to make that choice every day.