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