WOOT! And YAY for end of chemo! *does happy dance and sends e-bottle of bubbly to celebrate*
It's such a relief, isn't it, and so good to get off those steroids that make you crazy (crazier?!) And yes, it's nice to stop worrying about everyone else's coughs and sneezes while your immune system is shot to pieces.
Hope you don't have to spend too much time for the first few sessions of radiotherapy while they mark up exactly 'where' the therapy has to go and check/re-check alignments before the treatments. By the time the fifth of these mark-up & check sessions came around, I told them that at my age, I didn't care how many extra smaller-than-a-pinhead permanent blue dots they needed to put on me, just as long as it made the process quicker all round!! Luckily, they only needed one more to decorate me properly ... And fingers crossed that you don't suffer too much from skin burn/irritation by the end of the radiotherapy.
I would so have a gieger counter in my office if I were you. (Or something that clicked convincingly). Can you imagine how easily you can chase people off? Okay, perhaps not very social. But still.
Yay for new hair! My brother's grew back in curly. Fortunately, this was the 80's so it was very fashionable and all.
Mine grew back curly too and with my normal short hairstyle it looked great. Except that the curls only lasted about 8 months, and then my hair went back to its normal state. *sigh*
It will be amusing to see if this happens: I certainly have/had a slight wave in my hair, but only when it was *long*. Mum of course was a ringletted red head.
Right now I look like I fuzzy pink rock, with my 1 cm of sparse peach fuzz sticking straight up all around the dome. On one hand, it is rather amusing :)
As yes, that fluffy fuzzy stage! At least it's easy to wash and dry, LOL. I wore my wigs until I decided it had grown enough to appear as just a 'super short' style. My curly stage was very grey (which I half expected), but once the curl went, it grew back to its normal thickness, the natural colour returned - if anything, a bit darker - and the grey isn't nearly as noticeable.
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It's such a relief, isn't it, and so good to get off those steroids that make you crazy (crazier?!) And yes, it's nice to stop worrying about everyone else's coughs and sneezes while your immune system is shot to pieces.
Hope you don't have to spend too much time for the first few sessions of radiotherapy while they mark up exactly 'where' the therapy has to go and check/re-check alignments before the treatments. By the time the fifth of these mark-up & check sessions came around, I told them that at my age, I didn't care how many extra smaller-than-a-pinhead permanent blue dots they needed to put on me, just as long as it made the process quicker all round!! Luckily, they only needed one more to decorate me properly ... And fingers crossed that you don't suffer too much from skin burn/irritation by the end of the radiotherapy.
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Yay for new hair! My brother's grew back in curly. Fortunately, this was the 80's so it was very fashionable and all.
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Right now I look like I fuzzy pink rock, with my 1 cm of sparse peach fuzz sticking straight up all around the dome. On one hand, it is rather amusing :)
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