Cute Hair

At least once a day I get told by someone how cute my hair is and how good I look in short hair.  Now, I have had short hair before and I guess I don't put this hairdo into that classification and I know people are just trying to be nice, but really?   Now, that is not to say I actually don't think it is kinda cool looking and not sure what the color even is, white, gray, salt-pepper, silvery, but it is nothing I have seen before on me.

It is curly as it gets longer and like Cat I have a strange duck tail in back and I have long ghostly hairs on my neck which I need to get trimmed to make it look more like maybe I am trying to keep my hair short. :-)

All in all, considering all my body has been through, I am doing pretty good.  I have to realize it has only been 8 weeks since my last chemo and all the information is your body takes months like 6 to 12 to really begin to recover.   So, one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time, and before I know it, a year will have passed.  I have not really thought about a time frame for reconstruction - probably not until January 2012 but that is just a thought.  That way I could spend a month in Florida during the winter recouping.  :-)

Saturday today and I am working around the house getting ready to be gone for vacation.  My house always looks better when I am gone then when I am here.  Oh well.

News Update

Sorry, nothing really new, just thought I would get your attention.  :-)

I can't even remember when I posted last and I assume not since Monday.   I had my port out early Monday morning.  Had to be at Memorial by 5:30 a.m. and we did it with 10 minutes to spare even in the dark (no electric at home) and icy roads.   Good job Joe!   Surgery was at 7:30 a.m.   I had an option of doing a MAC which is like what you get when you get a colonoscopy where you don't know what is going on or you sleep but there are no tubes down your throat etc.    So, I could actually hear some of Dr. Thompson's bad jokes but could not feel a thing.  I woke right up and actually was ready to go by 8:30 and they let me walk out of the hospital.  I loved it.  I have not even taken so much as an apirin for pain.  I love my medical care givers!  By 9:00 a.m. we were having breakfast and trying to figure out what to do since we had no electric.  We both ended up at work - he dropped me off and then came back later.  By the time we got home the electric had just come back on.  

I am officially on high blood pressure medication and not happy about it - but it makes me feel a little better.  I hope after getting back into a workout routine, and eating a little more healthy I can maybe get off of it.  I am also on the tamoxifen which I will be on for five years and that has managed to give me hot flashes again.  Oh well, nothing much I can do.  My fingernails are a work in progress and my toe nails are ugly.  They continue to grow out and become more healthy.  My hair is growing sooooooo sloooooow.  It is getting a little thicker because I had a pretty good thin spot on top.  My eye brows and eye lashes continue to grow and thicken and gives my face a lot more color.  I do appreciate that.

Hopefully, vacation next week will continue to destress me and I will return to Michigan mid-March all renewed.

Far and few between

I can honestly say I don't remember the last time I posted.  My hair is growing - not fast - but growing and still is very salt and pepper - kinda of interesting.  I actually have some eyebrows and eye lashes.  This has all really happened in the last 10 to 14 days.   I still have finger and feet issues but don't seem to notice as much.  I definitely need to see my primary care physician because my blood pressure continues to stay high and things happening around me help keep it there.  My port will come out a week from Monday and I am ready to move on from there as well.   

Not much else happening.  I have not started exercising like I should, and watching my food intake is a hit and miss.  Oh well, I need something to work on.

Quiet

All is quiet.  I don't have much to complain about, my hair is growing a little and actually is a little spikey.   I am having effects of the tamoxifen which sucks but not much I can do so I won't worry about it.  Watching the news about the impending snow storm and my goal is to get home from Lansing before it hits - please.   I don't want to be stuck out on I-94 or any other road for that matters.  Ugh!

I have been feeling okay, and actually feel pretty good.  People keep telling me I look tan and I'm not sure what that is about unless they are seeing me just after a "hot flash" which provides nice color to my face.  :-)

Not much else to talk about - oh - it is February 1st and I continue to take each day at a time.

One Month Later

So it has been a month since my last treatment and I feel pretty good.  I had my port flushed yesterday in South Bend and when I talked with the nurse about my fingers and toes still tingly she said it will be more like 6 months to a year before it really is gone and sometimes there is always a tingly feel left or it may even come back.  So, wonderful - but I will think positive and just expect it to go away in much less than 6 months.  :-)  That's just what I do.

I did get the paperwork from Dr. Thompson and my port is being removed February 21st - President's Day - and I don't have to take a sick day to do it -woot woot!    The next day I have a board meeting and the following week - off to Florida. 

My eyebrows are growing back in and I can see them in the mirror, eye lashes are a bit slower but there.  When the bald spot fills in on the top of my head the short hair will really look kinda cute even if I still don't recognize the hair as mine.  Maybe I will be a new me.  But, if I keep this really short hair, I really need a skinnier body - that is soon in my plan to begin to concentrate on my health and fitness.  I have had a very sore left knee (it has been that way since walking 60 miles last year) and I am very careful to not overwork it.  However, walking is my saving grace and I miss it terribly. 

Not much else happening now.  I see Zon in March and actually, I think I have a conflict appointment - uh ho. 

At least it's something

Okay, I think I can see some eyebrow hairs in the mirror.  I feel so silly brushing on brows every morning - I will be happy to just have regular ones like other people.  I get lots of comments on my new hair - I only wear a hat now if my head is cold - otherwise, it is my new do.   I have been having problems with my left knee and no idea why.  That has slowed down any thoughts of walking.  Maybe it is psychological.

Tomorrow I have my port flushed and will follow up on the port removal since I have heard nothing back from the doctor's office on that one. 

That's about it for today.

Hump Day

So, it is the middle of the week, I am in Cass today, and feeling okay.  I went to bed early last night just because I was tired.  I never left Centreville until 5:30 and it was a long, long, long day, but I handled it pretty well. 

I think I still have all the same issues.  To be honest I don't even really know because I don't think about them really until I write.  When I take off my boots at the end of the day is when I notice of bad my feet feel.  They have to get better or doing any type of walking will be tough.  I will go Friday and have my port flushed and take off work a little and just enjoy the afternoon.

I am trying to set up my port being removed for President's Day but have not heard back from the doctor's office yet.  I think I will call them today since my office number changed and maybe they don't know how to call me.