Round One - RECOVERY Week Two

The past week has been pretty good.  Food isn't nearly as salty.  It comes and goes.  Just like the doctors said, I feel like normal again.  I had blood work done and my body is handling the drugs very well, and I'm staying healthy.  I've been more tired than usual, but that was to be expected.

The most interesting thing over the past week happened this morning.  I was beginning to wonder when I was going to start losing my hair.  When I got out of the shower,  I noticed the process has finally begun.  There were hairs on the shower floor, and a few strands on my pillow.  I am very grateful that I have already cut my hair.  Just seeing the short pieces in the shower was weird and would've been harder to deal with mentally had they been long.  I now have lint brushes in my house and purse, ready to clean up the mess this is going to make.

When I got home from school I was curious to see how easily my hair would come out.  Usually it takes a lot of work to pull out my gray hairs.  Because life is ridiculous, they are the hairs that want to hold on the most!  I pulled on my hair a little and was surprised when quite a bunch came out.  I did it again, and more came out.  I've watched YouTube videos of women losing their hair due to chemotherapy and they just cry and cry as their hair comes out.  I thought I would be more concerned about losing my hair.  Turns out, I'm not.  

I don't want to have to clean up strands of hair everywhere, because it's going to get EVERYWHERE.  I figure that if I just pull it out myself, I'm in charge of how this goes.  For some reason, that empowers me.  It's almost fascinating to see how this happens.  Maybe it's a way of trying to be in control of ONE part of this journey.  

Sorry if this sounds gross, but I don't care!  

So my hair is now falling out.  I'm not looking forward to this process, only because it's going to be messy.  My next chemotherapy treatment will be on May 13th.  Hopefully I will be able to handle it because unlike the first time, I'll have to go back to work 3 days later.

There are five weeks until the New Kids on the Block concert!  Once again, I'd like to end with a smile.  Enjoy this video from a few years ago.  I LOVE this video!