Huzzah! The sunshine and warm weather are here! At least for today, and that's good enough for me -- for today anyway. I'm out on the deck, admiring all the lovely containers that have been planted and are blooming and growing. It's quiet, except for the boats on the lake and the Fleet Foxes blaring on the stereo, oh yeah, and all those birds chirping and cawing. It's all good.
32 treatments down, 3 to go. A month ago the end of all this business seemed like such a long way away, but here I am on the precipice of putting my cancer treatment in the past. And I'm ready. So if you feel a special sigh of relief on Wednesday morning at around 9am, that'll be me saying ba-bye to the radiation machine.
My eyebrows and eyelashes fell out about 3 weeks ago, and my eyebrows have already grown back in -- like wow. If my hair was as vigorous a grower as my eyebrows seem to be, I'd have nothing to complain about. But the hair on my head is growing slow as molasses, and the eyelashes are taking their time too. They say a watched pot never boils; I guess the same is true for hair. I scrutinize my pate every day, hoping - willing it to grow - but it's ignoring me. Oh well, another opportunity to practice patience. You'd think I would be getting better at this, but so far, no.
I've got an appointment with my oncologist on Thursday, so I'll find out what the follow-up plan is. And now, back to the sunshine -- all of you!
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