Ghosties on Parade

Yup, today was the day for more joking from the radiation docs....

I was told that the area of my head that I've lost hair is suitable for a comb over....

*grin*

Time to go for the full-time Sinead O'Connor look....as soon as I can get to the store to get a human-style clipper.

Ghost Peppers

Week three of what has essentially become a six week stint of radiation has been and gone. Last Sunday, after pulling more and more 10 inch hairs out of my food (food that I had made, disturbingly) was "get this cut short" day. The new hairdo is disturbingly like my mother-in-law's hairstyle (and the look on the hairstylists face when I asked for a "Sinead O'Connor" tells me SHE is no longer popular and I just may want to take a picture with me next time), but as my husband noted when we shared the showered together yesterday, it may not be that way that long. As Jim, a nurse at the desk were I go into radiation, noted "by the third week or so, you'll be losing your hair, but NOT (he rubbed his bald head) like me."

With the driver who lost a couple of family members to cancer noting that my hair may actually become MUCH shorter before I'm through, I've been debating whether I want to (1) just let nature have it's way, no matter what my head looks like (2) paint it up for fun with Halloween spray paints (which would probably be better done after the radiation treatments, when I'm just here at home) or (3) go for the wig/hat thing. This may take a while or may be all three.

Oh...wait.....

I bought a couple of Halloween wigs on special discount a couple of years ago....

One is a mohawk and the other is tiger striped.....

*getting an evil grin, picturing wearing these in as "hats" as it gets colder here in Maine*

THIS could be FUN!!

Ghost Toasties

We're almost one week in on the radiation. My hubby says he can sleep most evenings, as my ability to glow in the dark has not yet been realized...

But I think I'm using up my glow in the dark capabilities during the day, when my head is complaining that I've abused it. Nothing serious, just the brain pan complaining that something is happening to it, I'm doing nothing, so it has to make my head ache....which makes me sleep my days away.

Meh!

In the meantime, my hubby managed to get me in first of the first...which means leaving the house no later that 7:15 if we want to make it on time for the 8:00 appointment...and having several people who offered to drive me to the appointments pulling away. Oh well. We've found enough people that we can get by.

But there's one thing that has made me stop and want to question the doctor....

I started off with a fairly severe headache. I took some Tylenol, my rice packs, and spend most of Monday with heat on the trouble spots. Tuesday was a little nicer. Wednesday, nicer still. I don't know why I took less Tylenol today, but it is actually seeming to get better....

As the Ghosties become Ghost Toasties, I can hope that this continues for a little while....

But knowing my luck....