Well not exactly long flowing hair but I have hair…enough hair that today I went and had my first haircut in 11 months. It has been 4 months since my last chemo treatment (my how time flies) and my hair has been coming in pretty patchy. For a while I joked that I had a reverse Mohawk. I had one side of my head that appeared to be curly and the other side was stick straight. The hair definitely wasn’t growing in evenly. Also, it was coming in ALL gray. Now I had a few gray strands here and there but not entirely GRAY like now. So I also treated myself to a color. My hair color is not brown and not red but a combination of brown/red. I just told the lady to use her best judgement. She got out a bunch of color strands, held them up to my face, and even asked a co-worker. She liked this color cause she said it was a nice warm tone. Now my hair wasn’t too long so she couldn’t do too much to style it but she did shape it up. My family tells me it looks good. Both of my sons didn’t stare at me, or gasped when they saw me. My hair will continue to change in texture and color over the next several months as my cells repair themselves after the chemo so my hair will be a work in progress. It was fun to see what color I would be.

Well I saw my plastic surgeon today and although he seemed like it was no big deal, of course I am frustrated. It appears that my right breast is experiencing fat necrosis (the transplanted fat is dying). In several months, when everything is completely healed, he said he may have to go back in there surgically and remove the dead fat and may have to put in an implant. Ugh….I chose this procedure because I didn’t want implants and I didn’t want a bunch of surgeries. Time will tell what the finished product will be.
Frankly, I am getting quite fed up with everything that has gone on in my life during the last 11 months. Just when I think I am seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, something else happens. I knew there were risks with the surgery, but fat necrosis doesn’t happen that often. I researched this surgery, I talked with several people who had the surgery and not one of them mentioned their flap (boob) dying.

Well I have whined enough…after all what is done is done and I will just have to see what happens and continue to deal with that the best I can. I’m alive and considered cancer free….everything else is just a bump in the road.

And I do have short, not gray hair…..yeah!

Thanks for all your support.

Love you, Lori