So, I am grappling with an issue here. For reasons that will become clear, I am no longer an active online dating nazi, but I do feel the occasional need to vent. My reasons for venting are just very different.
Do I turn this into a "Hi.....I have cancer" blog or do I just post immune system boosting recipes and pictures of cool hats? My daughter and I have both agreed that I will not do the bandana thing when I lose my hair. It is a bit too much like walking around with a pink ribbon sandwich board. I mean....let's get real, you see a woman with a bandana and you just think, "Oh.....poor thing".
I have never had a lot of hair. Being naturally blonde I have lived through the ridicule of having a pony tail that can be threaded through a needle and I have likely spent millions on volume enhancing products, but when faced with baldness, I cling to what little hair I have and wonder if there can possibly be a wig out there that won't make me look like Chemo Barbie.
A less self-indulgent issue is the way that people treat you when they know that you are a walking question mark. Trust me, sneezing in public has a much more immediate effect but people go running for vastly different reasons. You might want to talk to them about how often you barf. You might want them to tell you that the wig makes you look like Eva Gabor. You might wear a bandana.
But.....some people rise. Some people think that you are no different, and some very special people tell you that that you are still beautiful.
Simply put......you learn to cherish the simplest of things.
Well.....I guess I just turned this into a "Hi....I have cancer" blog. Maybe my next post will detail how I made my own mastectomy bra. It really was quite brilliant.
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