And I by that I mean the hair stops growing, because as long as there is hair… I will shave. I was also told today that I’m not supposed to be shaving under my arms with a razor since the nerves there are damaged from surgery (aka, I have NO feeling) so I guess I’m […]

Today was another fill day, and again, I was able to take 120 cc of water in the good ol’ balloons, so NOW I’m at 360 cc. Evidently when you have a lot of skin to spare from a “skin sparing mastectomy” the “fill ‘er up!” part goes a lot quicker.  I won’t be able […]

I started doing a little looking to the whole wig thing, and first surprise, my insurance doesn’t have any wig allowance.  I know of places to get free ones and all, but since I have pretty good insurance, I just thought that I’d use my insurance to get a wig, and save the free stuff […]

Last week I mentioned that it had been 20 years since I gave the sidekick my phone number in what turns out to be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, sober or not. Twenty years ago tonight, we went to Boston Common for our most important first date ever. Today has been tough, […]

OK, I’m not sure that GROOVY is the work I want, but I definitely feel odd, funky, and not quite right, but not HORRIBLE. I have been taking my anti-nausea meds, although the issue seems to be more with the other end (I know, NICE) but I haven’t lost my lunch yet at all. I’m […]

Have you ever noticed that as soon as you make an appointment to get your hair cut, your hair looks awesome until the day of the appointment? Maybe that’s just me? Well, this week, as I’ve worked towards chemo that I asked the nurse, “what are we talking about on losing the hair, like a […]

I am also neither a teenager, nor a turtle, but I was guessing you already knew that. So the GOOD news is that in the standard tests that they give, I don’t have the BRCA 1 or 2 genetic mutations that could have caused my cancer.  Are these the ONLY genes linked to breast cancer? […]

I’ve got so much running through my head right now, it’s hard to know where to start. 20 years ago tonight I was in my first weekend at Boston University, and long-story-short, I met a guy. Who is currently asleep next to me on our couch. For the last three days I’ve had a chance to […]

I had another song picked out, although now that I think of it, No Drains would have worked better for last Friday, but when I didn’t get a fill, that was the song that somehow popped into my head. However, this little flub of an oldie but goodie (where I mess up the line because […]

Yep, got them out! Today is awesome, not only because I got both of the drains removed, but because my awesome new boots-for-a-ninja-to-wear-for-chemo came in the mail.  Took me several days to pick them, and I may have to send back an entire order at Old Navy when the sidekick sees how much they cost, […]