Day 3 - 2nd time

PICC line flushed, Neulasta shot given. I feel pretty good, just a bit of an unsettled stomach & a bit dizzyish. Not bad all things considered - knock on wood it continues.

Well - you called it, I'm a red head!! I think that I might need a new name for when I'm sporting such awesome hair colour!! Maybe this:

Áine (AWN-ye) From the Old Irish áine, meaning 'brilliance, wit, splendor, glory, radiance'. Connected with fruitfulness and prosperity. According to Irish legend, Áine was the daughter of Fer I (Man of the Yew) and queen of the fairies of South Munster. Irish folklore held that she lived at a place now called Knockany (Cnoc Áine, "Áine's Hill") and was "the best-hearted woman who ever lived – lucky in love and in money."





Shelly picked out a different blonde, it's a warmer, red-toned blonde that I like. I'm still loving the original blonde even if it makes me look a bit paler. I think that it didn't photograph as well as it really looks on me!! I'll go fetch one of these in a couple of weeks when Kerwyn gets paid again.





I finished Shedir le Lime.













Smeegle me just wasn't working so I'm gone with the Ilia me. Amanda agrees that it's an improvement!! I don't quite have her lips and I have more of an oval head, but I'm rolling with the comparison!






I've got several projects that I want to start on ... I'm seriously in a dither trying to decide!!!

Days 1 & 2 Again

I measure my time now by days - * Day 1 being the day of chemo treatment, after day 7 it's the good week then the great week. Repeat from* 4 more times.

I came home from treatment yesterday with a fierce & debilitating headache. I spent yesterday, last night & most of today in bed sleeping & napping to let the Tylenol work. I'm much better now & knock on wood that'll be the worst of it this time round.
The Lorazepam is definitely helping my sleep patterns & the Prilosec has totally got the heartburn under control. God bless pharmaceuticals!!!


I'm ready to lose my Smeegle look and am going to fetch a wig (My Precious!!!) tomorrow.


The popular vote is for the Long & Luscious Red but I'm not entirely certain that I won't just got with the Blonde Bombshell first. Shelly will be going with me & will be the final opinion - I must advise you that she's a blonde!! LOL Whichever one I don't get first I will get in a couple of weeks.

I think that I'll finish Shedir le Lime tonight - the nurses were very impressed with Shedir le Violet yesterday!!

Fallout

Day 14 - My hair has started coming out right on schedule. I told Amanda that it had started happening & she said, "Already?".






Day 16 - Up until now I've been able to look in a mirror and walk around in public and not have to think "Hey, I've got cancer". Like I said to Amanda this morning, "I'm starting to look like I've got cancer now".

I have to just not touch my head or it turns into a hair removing session that borders on OCD. The dead hair won't come out with just combing/brushing, I have to pull it out. So it's a whole thing of running my fingers through my hair, kind of twisting and grabbing hair and pulling, but not too hard because some hair is still attached. My scalp is sensitive anyway and it's giving me a headache, all of this pulling.

It's hard. I know ... I'm beautiful, it'll grow back ... blah, blah, blah. They don't call hair a woman's crowning glory for nothing. I think hope that I'll be fine once it's gone & I can get used to it & learn to rock the bald.

So there was nothing for it but to put on my Shedir & go look at wigs. I let Amanda have the day off so that she could come with and nothing starts the day better than Starbucks!!





I love the blonde and the long red - I'll go back next Friday when Kerwyn gets paid (like my taste in yarn,my taste in wigs does not run to the low-end!!) and get them fitted & styled. Our insurance companies will reimburse us for part of it the rest will be paid back in my happiness.
I've added a poll in the sidebar - I'd love to know what your favorite look is!!

I am trying to get as much fun & living and stuff done as I can during the time when I'm feeling well. OMG - you should see my calendar for the 3^rd week in October!!

I baked banana bread - it tasted as good as it looks!!!


I have arranged for a dyeing workshop at Shelridge Farms on Monday; I'm so excited!!! We are going to be dyeing sock yarn but I'm also taking along some Koigu Kersti that I bought on the DKC trip a few years ago. It was a serious bargain because they discovered that the dye was not colourfast. I am trying to sun-bleach them a bit more and then will overdye them with Buffy's help so that I can make an On the Easy Side from Knit One Below.


If my hair can't look great (until I get wigs that is!!) I'm totally going to have lovely hands!! The rings that I had ordered from Silpada came - I love them!!! I've gone through the catalog and marked off more that I want.