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pretend hair and other animals
Dec. 16th, 2007 08:57 amso, my wonderful friend ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cangetmad accompanied me to the pretend hair shop on friday. the whole thing was a far less painful (except for the actual physical pulling out of some of what remains of my own hair, that is) experience than it could have been. some of the pretend hair was fun, some was plain freaky, some was just plain. i went for not so plain, but perhaps not as striking as I could have. i think the freakiest moment was putting on my hair circa a month or so ago. the colour was perhaps a bit more golden and it was a few inches longer, but it was my hair, fringe and all. incredible.
from not wanting a wig at all, i have gone right over to the other side, i'm so glad i got it. i wore it to the birthday party at clambers yesterday, and felt fine. it's actually incredibly easy to tell people that it's a wig and that i'm having chemo when they haven't got a clue. if i was sat there with my wispiness they'd know right from the start what was up, but a couple of people complimented me on my hair, once i hadn't seen since the summer, and one i hadn't seen in 2 weeks. haha! I said, it's a wig.
i think it looks quite nice, and Bill likes it. supposedly it will fit better and be more comfortable when i have no hair of my own, and i am welcome to go to the pretend hair studio and have it all whizzed off, but i don't yet feel ready for that.
at the moment i am wearing a scarf, i have no idea how to tie it "properly" so TT says I look like a pirate, which is a-ok by him.
as for the rest of it, the second chemo is now 4 days ago. i feel pretty good. my scalp is still painful and it's still not easy to cope emotionally with the hair coming out, but i can look in the mirror still, and the pretend hair helps too.
the heartburn magic bullets work, although i woke up early this morning with heartburn. so I just got up early and took one.
except for the headache on wednesday night (the day of the treatment) i have been pretty untroubled. just a suggestion of headache, usually in the evenings.
again, absolutely no sickness at all. the mixture of steroids and domperidone obviously work really well for me. the steroids also have the added benefit of being another magic bullet for joint pain, i have literally no joint pain at the moment. this is incredible, for me. as of today all i am taking is the heartburn capsule, i finished the steroids and domperidone for this session yesterday. i'll give my system a break for today and go back on the anti-inflammatories tomorrow. i can't take them with the steroids, but of course i'm not needing them. the mistake i made last time was waiting until the pain came back before taking them again, and then i couldn't shake the pain until they had built back up. so, tomorrow.
my mouth started to get a little sore last night but is actually fine this morning. haven't got much of a sense of taste. poached eggs on toast is my high protein breakfast of choice at the moment, but it might as well have been cardboard. i'm not spoiling myself with tropicana oj right now either, because i can't tell the difference. coffee is out, tea is ok but not great. coke is fine, so it's my afternoon pick me up.
so, tuesday or wednesday should be where i i hit my low point for this run, we'll see how i go. right now, really, it's just the sheer exhaustion. i could quite happily go back to bed right now, but i think i'll just knit instead. that's less hard work than going over and over my pillow with the lint roller....
cangetmad accompanied me to the pretend hair shop on friday. the whole thing was a far less painful (except for the actual physical pulling out of some of what remains of my own hair, that is) experience than it could have been. some of the pretend hair was fun, some was plain freaky, some was just plain. i went for not so plain, but perhaps not as striking as I could have. i think the freakiest moment was putting on my hair circa a month or so ago. the colour was perhaps a bit more golden and it was a few inches longer, but it was my hair, fringe and all. incredible.from not wanting a wig at all, i have gone right over to the other side, i'm so glad i got it. i wore it to the birthday party at clambers yesterday, and felt fine. it's actually incredibly easy to tell people that it's a wig and that i'm having chemo when they haven't got a clue. if i was sat there with my wispiness they'd know right from the start what was up, but a couple of people complimented me on my hair, once i hadn't seen since the summer, and one i hadn't seen in 2 weeks. haha! I said, it's a wig.
i think it looks quite nice, and Bill likes it. supposedly it will fit better and be more comfortable when i have no hair of my own, and i am welcome to go to the pretend hair studio and have it all whizzed off, but i don't yet feel ready for that.
at the moment i am wearing a scarf, i have no idea how to tie it "properly" so TT says I look like a pirate, which is a-ok by him.
as for the rest of it, the second chemo is now 4 days ago. i feel pretty good. my scalp is still painful and it's still not easy to cope emotionally with the hair coming out, but i can look in the mirror still, and the pretend hair helps too.
the heartburn magic bullets work, although i woke up early this morning with heartburn. so I just got up early and took one.
except for the headache on wednesday night (the day of the treatment) i have been pretty untroubled. just a suggestion of headache, usually in the evenings.
again, absolutely no sickness at all. the mixture of steroids and domperidone obviously work really well for me. the steroids also have the added benefit of being another magic bullet for joint pain, i have literally no joint pain at the moment. this is incredible, for me. as of today all i am taking is the heartburn capsule, i finished the steroids and domperidone for this session yesterday. i'll give my system a break for today and go back on the anti-inflammatories tomorrow. i can't take them with the steroids, but of course i'm not needing them. the mistake i made last time was waiting until the pain came back before taking them again, and then i couldn't shake the pain until they had built back up. so, tomorrow.
my mouth started to get a little sore last night but is actually fine this morning. haven't got much of a sense of taste. poached eggs on toast is my high protein breakfast of choice at the moment, but it might as well have been cardboard. i'm not spoiling myself with tropicana oj right now either, because i can't tell the difference. coffee is out, tea is ok but not great. coke is fine, so it's my afternoon pick me up.
so, tuesday or wednesday should be where i i hit my low point for this run, we'll see how i go. right now, really, it's just the sheer exhaustion. i could quite happily go back to bed right now, but i think i'll just knit instead. that's less hard work than going over and over my pillow with the lint roller....
