2 Weeks Post-Chemo

It feels SO DARN GOOD to know that I'm done with chemotherapy. I never got very sick, just lightheaded, dizzy, and super duper tired, but that was enough for me to know I hated it. I hated sitting in that chemo chair for hours and watching that poisin drip into my veins. I hated knowing that I'd feel like crud with no energy for almost a week after. I am soooooooooo lucky to have only needed 4 chemo treatments total. I know I'm lucky. I can't even begin to imagine having to go through months and months of it like some people have to. I am so relieved to be done. It feels like a weight has been lifted to know the cancer is gone. It seems a little surreal to me, but I know it's gone and I already feel so much better knowing I'm this much closer to getting my life back. I look forward to the days of not thinking about how many doctors appointments I have that week.

Another thing I look forward to, BIG TIME, is having hair again. Being bald SUCKS. My hair was not gorgeous by any means, but man do I miss it. Having none will really make you realize how much your hair does for your total well-being (as stupid as that sounds.) For a woman, our hair is a big part of what makes us feel feminine and let me tell you, I haven't felt very sexy being bald. Not to mention, my head gets cold all the time!

Now that chemo is behind me... I was thinking, since it's going to be a long, slow process... maybe it would be kind of fun to document my hair growing back. I figure I'll try to snap a picture every couple of weeks or so to really see the growth. I know, for me, looking at myself every day it's going to feel like forever and an eternity until I have hair again... I think looking at the pictures will really help me see that it really IS growing, even though it feels like it's not!

I don't think my hair ever really stopped growing completely since I never got "shiny" bald like Mr. Clean as some chemo patients do, but it did thin out everywhere overall. So I think shaving my head would have been necessary anyway. It really seems to have grown in the last week or so and now I have a nice, thin layer of fuzz.

2 WEEKS POST-CHEMO, sportin' my fuzz!