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.

A Freakin' Great Day!!!

I had an awesome day yesterday!! Still feeling coldish but my sister came by and we knit for a bit until the Simone came by to flush out the PICC line. Then the adventure began.

I needed to go get my license sticker - like most Canadians I leave it until the day before my birthday to get so no matter how much I wanted to stay home there was no choice.
Waiting in line for a half hour only to find out that this office only did testing & that I'd have to go up to the north end of Barrie had me irritated, but there was nothing for it. I took a minute before we headed up (really, it's only like 15 mins but still ... I had a whole mission planned out) to call Rogers to see if the iPhone shipment had come in. I need hard-core want a new phone; mine is 3+ years old and a serious dinosaur. Since I love my iPod Touch so much and I really hate learning a new phone an iPhone only makes sense but they are seriously hard to come by. Yes ... but theirs were all gone but Bayfield had received 18. OMG!!! I had Daphne call them while I put Justin into overdrive. We got there & there were about 9 people in line ahead of us ... Daphne kept pointing out that they may not all be there for the iPhone. I wasn't going to be reassured by anything but the weight of an iPhone in my hand. I got it!!! I was so excited ... by the time I paid for the phone & bluetooth Daphne decided that opportunity was knocking real loud and she scored one too! I was so seriously giddy with excitement (I don't understand why no one else who got one wasn't as excited ... they don't deserve the phone!!!) and Daphne too that Alex said that we totally made his day.
While Daphne got hooked up with her phone I went up the street to get the license sticker - the correct office was just up the road ... fate or what?!

From there it was on to Costco. About a year ago Miche had a display there and it just was not a good time for splurging but I wasn't able to get the bag(s) out of my head. Can you believe it ... they were there!!! I couldn't resist $99.99 for the bag + 4 shells and the short & long straps. I added in the Chanel straps because

I love them!!




Now I can try to keep my "purse" things in my small purse and carry around just one sizable knitting bag. It's all about the illusion of normalcy. And all I need to do to change purses is switch shells ... no messing with contents at all - SCORE!!!

Then when we finally got home & I sorted out the grocery (yes, I bought food at Costco too ;-) ) Joy came by. She was doing a Silpada party at Shelly's but I bailed on it to put my feet up and try to get to bed early, but I still wanted a couple of rings so Joy came by so that I could pick my sizes & place the order. I'm not really a big jewelery kinda gal and wearing it around home is like throwing pearls before swine, but I'm going to start making an effort ... Shelly is a good influence. So these are what I picked.

All of my good luck & splurges landed on one day ... but that feeling will last me for weeks & months!!!

Today I am trying to kill off a migraine; I took meds for it last night, this morning at 4:30 & Kerwyn went to pick me up more at 11. I don't know if the chemo drugs are interfering but I'm getting nothing from my miracle drug.

Between setting up my iPhone and the migraine knitting has been effectively sabotaged but I'll be back on track later today with any luck. I hope that all of my friends up at Julie's Camp are having a great time!!!