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 whynotme's Cancer BlogOctober 8, 2008
Inevitably courageous
June 11, 2008
By the way, if you are so brave as to go out without your wig or scarf, I say go for it, what a huge lesson in self confidence. If you can hold your bald head high and not give a cats claw about what everyone is thinking about you, imagine the amount of confidence you’ll have in your everyday get up, if that happens to be something other than bald.
RIGHT ON….I AGREE WITH YOU COMPLETELY. Of course, I am 35 years older than you. You are only 3 months younger than my twin daughters. My bald head never bothered me in the slightest but it did bother one of my daughters. They were juniors in high school when it happened. I tried to wear something on my head when Cheryl was around. My husband, my other daughter and my son didn’t care. I hated the wig or any of the stuff I had to wear on my head. IT WAS SO HOT and as you said, it felt so good to pull it off and go completely bald. I didn’t look all that pretty but it sure did feel good.
My hair started falling out one morning and was completely gone by bedtime. It came back in curly, but to my dismay, my curls didn’t last. I was hoping it would come back in black instead of grey but that didn’t happen either….lol. I see you are taking Adriamycin. You may do fine on it depending on the amount you are taking. It damaged my heart muscle but I would rather have my heart muscle damaged than to be dead. I was taking very large amounts of it during the first 2 treatments in 1994. I had a blood clot in my right arm and they had to cut back on the dosage. I took tamoxifen from 1994 to 1999 but after the 2nd time they gave me Arimidex. I took that from June, 2006, to January, 2007, and my doctor and I decided to stop it because it was not too good for my bones. Well, hang in there, my friend, and keep fighting. I have been battling for 14 years and I PRAISE GOD FOR EACH YEAR. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Hugs, Joyce I totally agree with you, I have not and do not plan on getting a wig, when I go out and worry about my poor little very white bald head I will cover it with a sun hat. I find living this summer without having to shave an enourmous blessing! Welcome to our family! Teri When my hair came out, I really had planned to go au natural. But, I teach first graders and some of them had a hard time dealing with it, so I wore caps all year. (I’m not a scarf type of gal.) The good thing was that I got to wear all kinds of crazy hats to school since I teach little ones. I had a neat hat for every holiday and even wore a laminated birthday visor just like my students. My favorite cap was black and it had sequins spelling out ‘No Hair Day’. So, yes, I support everyone on whatever choice they make about their new found bald head. Do what feels right for you and make minor adjustments when you’re around loved ones who are having a hard time dealing with the new you. ah nicely said, thumbs up for the post
I realized today that I have been trying to fight cancer all by myself. This is not my fight. God promised me that I would be healed of all of my afflictions. As much as I say it, I haven’t truly believed it for a long time. I have been leaning on friends and family and everyone else I could find for support, but I forgot about God. I know that God sends people in my life for love and support and strength, but when you forget about God, it’s like changing the date of the party on the one who planned the whole thing. Today I am giving myself permission to give this to God. I’m tellin God when and where all of my appointments are, so he can be there with me. He can help me and my husband remember to ask the questions that we forget. You know those little questions we think don’t make a difference. I’m giving him permission to go into the lab and look at my films and slides and to make sure that nothing was overlooked. I’m giving God permission to talk to my doctors, because who knows my body better than God? I give God permission to speak to my doctors about what they should do, and to guide me in the direction of treatment that’s best for me. I will always believe that I was put in this position for a reason, but in order to have a testimony of being cured of breast cancer, I must trust that God can and will cure me. My mother always says if your going to pray why worry. With this new year comes a new perspective. I once said that I own this, it does not own me. What I should have said is I do not own this and it does not own me. I gave my cancer to God today, I’ll let him throw it out. Good idea, I will join you and we will give God our cancer and our worries together. Thank you. Mac You said it all guys I give God my problems that I have had that day. He takes care of them for me. He’s up all night any way. Hug Sherri
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I love that!
Marvelous! With out a test there can be no testimony. Your poem was encouraging, thank you.
Mac
Thank for sharing your thoughts through your Poem.
Hug Sherri
What a beautiful poem.
I still have my breasts but they have shrunken and hang down to my waist which has risen up to meet them. smile It happens with old age and cancer! tee hee hee
Anyway, thanks so much for that poem.
Ethel Craven-Sweet better known as sweete2
Hi there just checking in had not heard from you in a while.
Hug Sherri