August Hair

 Friday, August 30, 2013

I've discovered some things about my hair. Maybe these things are true about everybody's hair. I just know that "BC", my hair was very easy to deal with. I just tossed it up into a French roll, and if it got messy or fell down, I could just do it again, wherever I was. I was happy with it. 

NOW...

The stuff is not the same on both sides of my ead. One side is definitely thinner, and it shows. And is slumps. One side curls very nicely and if you look at that side it looks like I have very nicely behaving hair. It isn't so bad to deal with, really, and I can wet it, and mousse it, and fluff it up a bit, and call it good. I do like to make sure the front is waving nicely, the way  I want it, because it will wave the way I do not want, if I don't. The strange thing is that now I see my mother in the mirror, because her hair waves this way. Mine didn't.

On the sinus front, I still deal with mucus issues, and I have a feeling I may be dealing with them for the rest of my life. However, since a year ago, I was just out of the hospital after week's ordeal, it's not so bad. I just went back to read some of those posts, posted by someone else. Someone who was watching me struggle with pain and mucus and mouth sore. Ugh. 

I hurts to think about those day, but it's nice to think about those who were standing by, helping me when I couldn't help myself. 

On the eating front. I ate a hamburger last night. ON A BUN!! Actually, it was only half a bun, and a homemade one, that "tastes" better. I didn't really enjoy the last of the half down, but stuck to it. I need to nutrition. I mean, eating real food is really boring. Usually, it's soup, soup, soup. (I like my soup, I make it myself.) If something isn't pretty wet to begin with, I have to drink to make sure it it. Then, it needs chewed and chewed and chewed. I enjoyed the sensation of eating the burger, but hamburger is rough, and it was hard on the inside of my mouth, which is still pretty tender, since I AM going to eat things at times that hurt it. When I get tired it gets sore, too. 

I'm really not healed up on the inside. I enjoyed (I'm not sure that is really the work I want) looking over the August 2012 posts. The encouragement the struggle, the people, the comments, the remembering it's over--that's the best part. 

P.S. On another front, I am not losing weight anymore, and I may have gained a little and I still don't taste sweet things. 

3 comments:

Monica said...

Shelley: I'm so glad you are a survivor. Happy you have hair in time for convention this year! Wish we'd bump into each other - these miles are just too many between us. Thank you for being an inspiration and a faithful sister through the storm. 

Love, Monica Hertz

August 30, 2013 at 6:27 PM

Bonita Sue said...

Yes, my mind goes back often to "a year ago now", too. What you went through is beyond description, and I'm so glad it's in the past. 

August 30, 2013 at 8:43 PM

Darcie said...

This post was a good reminder for me, that sometimes it's OK to look back...and see just how forward we have come!

September 2, 2013 at 7:19 PM

July Hair

 Saturday, August 3, 2013

A lot of things have been going on in July besides growing hair. 

Time is marching on, normal things are going on. My hair is growing. 

Lynette has been dying to get her hands on my seemingly slow-growing hair and French braid it. 

It is finally long enough to get a braid to stay in while it is soaking wet.

The hair is rather cute, too bad the rest of the head is still the same.

Of course by now I can't remember what I did most of the month of July. That is another thing that helps me feel that life is a lot closer to normal this summer than last. Time is doing more than marching along it is flying.

I do remember what we did the last week. 

My mom has been promising to come and help us freeze corn. My folks came on Thursday. We also had some very special ladies come, too. So, we were full up. The day before everyone came I had all three grandsons for the day while Lorene attended a CNA recertification class or something like that. 

So, we froze the corn on Thursday and I cooked a late supper. Friday was a free day and my folks left.

Saturday, our other friends left, and i spent the rest of the day getting ready for the Kleeb family reunion, which takes place every other year on the fourth Sunday in July.

This year was our turn to plan the reunion, which simply entails finding a place to have it, arranging for drinks, and be there in time to oversee the eating. We rather failed in this, so someone else found the building but we did the rest. We gathered in Broken Bow, 60 of us this more, more than usual. The third generation, the first cousins, is almost gone. There are only two or three left. Some of the family, we don't know anything about or where they are, or any way to contact them. The ones that were there and we enjoyed the visiting. I was dead tired when I got home and after eating out, (no cooking being done by me after that day), I went to bed early.

The surprise of the weekend, was my folks deciding to come back Sunday night and do another day of corn freezing on Monday. (They hadn't gone all the way home, they were at a school reunion.) That was a big day. My mom is a glutton for punishment. We did 21 dozen ears, and got 77 pints fo corn. It took most of the day

Now, I should be able to rest. Not.

Unless you call driving three hours to Omaha restful. I had another doctor visit the next day. The usual kind where they examine me all over my head and neck on the outside, and my nose and sinuses on the inside. I also had an MRI since it ha been a year since the first after surgery one. They just canned my head, so it didn't take very long. I was so tired that I was able to relax.

After that, we ate at Popeye's Chicken. I don't know what it is about chicken places and spice. The chicken was good, but the green beans about burnt my mouth off. KFC's were like that, too. Then, we went to see Tyler Snow who is recovering from a bone marrow transplant. He is looking good, but in the throes of adjusting meds, fatigue and hydration, and eating. None is particularly easy or quick, but as with all life changing events, medical or otherwise, small steps are the only way it's going to happen. And he is going up, not down. 

So, I rested on the way home. I rested so well, I fell asleep and made everyone else find their own dinner. 

 

July Hair

P.S. The scan results were:

No change from the last time, and that's good news.

4 comments:

Darcie said...

I guess you could say that time flying is a very good indicator of normalcy...never thought of that until now. So happy for your MRI results, I suppose just thinking about that is worrisome, but good to know you can put that worry to rest, too. :-)

August 5, 2013 at 3:13 PM

Renee said...

Simply LOVE the picture of you and Jim. Your hair is jus adorable. And, SHE:LLEY...those shoes!! I'm jealous...I love mine but I finally had to ditch them. I just think it's amazing that you can still wear your. The were so comfy. Loved this update. We did corn too...heaps and heaps of it. It will taste so yummy this winter!

August 5, 2013 at 4:15 PM

Anita said..

So now I wonder if there is an 'August Hair' post? :) I'm rather behind again. I'll just have to plow on. Seeing this post, though, makes me wonder how my CA friend is doing. She's been done with the rough chemo for a month and a half for so now, so I reckon her hair is just starting to peek through??? Will have to ask? Glad to see your is coming along so well!

August 24, 2013 t 11:01 AM

Anita said...

ps - Good job, Lynette! I'm not a lot of good at braiding little girls' hair...and this looks like it'd be similar. I hope you sit still like a good kid! ;)

August 24, 2013 at 11:03 AM