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Hairless, hairless, hairless, hairless
This is my second summer of wearing baseball style caps to cover my hairless dome so if anyone was confused about my gender they were polite enough to keep it to themselves until last night. True, I was wearing my John Deere tee-shirt mainly because I had on a cap that matched the John Deere green and the man behind the counter did seem a ( Read more... ) -
The loss of a friend - stage four
On Monday I’ll start what is called whole brain zapping (ok, I’ll admit that I’m the only one who calls it that but I think it will catch on) and the thought of it does bother me. This is my brain they’ll be messing with. Unlike last year’s radiation treatment, I can’t drive myself back and forth to these since radiation to the brain has been ( Read more... ) -
Marge Simpson's got nothing on me
Fearing I’d never have any appreciable amount of hair again, especially considering how little growth I had during my year off from chemo, I decided to buy a wig. There were thirty some styles to choose from in an equal amount of colors and they all looked good and natural on the model. I was as excited about the arrival of the head covering ( Read more... ) -
CostcoNews
Yesterday afternoon while in the bathroom at Costco a lady and her young daughter went into the stall beside the one I was in. With such close proximity, even if I weren’t a dedicated eavesdropper, there was no way to not hear the conversation. The little girl said “Mommy, do you remember once on Scooby-Doo when Scooby and Shaggy and Daphne ate a ( Read more... ) -
Shedding
In three weeks my Eddie Munster look has melded into William Kunstler in his declining years and now my hair has thinned so much there’s no weight to it so after a night of sleep I wake looking like Don King ( Read more... ) -
Paved Paradise
I started another round of chemo on St. Patrick’s Day and this new stuff has the usual side-effects - hair loss (obviously my priorities haven’t changed) being in the top 5. The main difference this time is along with the chemo administered every three weeks I’ll also take pills for a two week period beginning with each infusion (4). Both the ( Read more... ) -
. . . . where troubles melt like lemon drops . . . .
a lyrical fallacy if ever there was one. Lemon drops stay rock hard no matter what the temperature. And yet for some reason this is a candy kids always seem to want and swear they love - usually until the third piece when they realize that there really isn’t anything lemony tasting about them, in fact they seem to taste like the paper they were ( Read more... ) -
It's only words
Several times during the night I awoke trying to remember the word for arriving on streams of moonlight into a corner cupboard stacked with quilts. There were a few times when I thought I almost had it but it kept alluding me. Still it seemed awfully important that I remember it. It wasn’t until much later this morning that I realized the entire ( Read more... ) -
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MELVIL!
