Health Update: September 3, 2011
This past week or so has flown by with little to no side effects after my second chemo treatment. I am so glad that was what happened for this go around the chemo-mobile. I did feel a bit ill today when I first woke up along with being light-headed and a bit nauseous. However, after a long nap, I felt much better. Napping is another one of my hobbies these days, along with reading and just trying to stay busy.
I am slowly getting used to the idea of having NO hair, but I am still rather shy about going outside without a hat or something on my head. I am slowly figuring out a few more interesting things about having no hair. It is interesting and quite funny at times -- some of the things a person thinks about -- when going through something like chemo and being bald for the first time in their life. Some of those ideas, I will not share with you. I will just let you think of them on your own since they can be a bit TMI for this type of blog. :+_)
I have been out a few times in several of the cute hats (one at a time, of course) that I got from TLC Direct. I ordered a few other colors; I am going to be quite the fashion icon (or fashionista, a term that Damien Spinelli uses for one of the female characters on GH) in the coming months. I will donate them to the cancer center here in town when I am finished with them. I have never been much of a hat person in recent years, but I am finding that I like to wear them. It is a change in my appearance -- along with the having no hair deal --that is a positive inspiration and reinforcement for my ego and attitude.
Yesterday, I did a computer search for cancer chat rooms. I am not sure where the idea came from, it just popped into my mind as so many other things do these days. I found several sites, joined one, and talked for a bit in one of them. I found so many people going through much worse than I am and to be truthful, I got a bit depressed and very concerned in regards to their situations. Honestly speaking, I had to leave the room because I was getting too emotional about what I was hearing in the room. It made me realize just how lucky I am and that what I am going through is a “precautionary” chemotherapy and many of theirs is for life- sustaining measures. Everyone in there was so helpful and even upbeat with advice for others and even some joking involved. I think that is what is most important in all this, being upbeat, positive and even joking and laughing as much as you can. After all, isn’t laughter the best medicine?
Remember to live, do not simply exist!
Learn something new each day!
Listen, especially to the silent things people do not or cannot say!
Laugh until you cry, and most of all,
Love for all it is worth!
CONNIE*
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