Evening What Nowers!
? I feeeeeeeeeel good da nananananaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I knew that I would da nanananananaaaaaaaaaaa so good, so good ?
OK maybe not that good but much better. I felt totally kack when I woke this morning, nauseaus & headachy, not the buttercup rage but a dull pounding everytime I stood or bent over......so I forced down a small bowl of muesli and took my cocktail of steroids and paracetamol. My stomach was still a bit gippy too. I was fed up of feeling lousy so I jumped (again not exactly leapfrogging in but you know what I mean) in the bath and after I dried my hair and for the first time since January I straightened my hair.
Tony mentioned it was looking a bit messy yesterday (without wanting to upset you Debs) and he was right, its grown a lot since then.....but the thought of going to the hairdressers with a bald top and saying....oh just a trim on the back and sides please, is not something I am strong enough to put myself through, so its not been cut since around the 19th January, the colour is growing out and some "silver sparkly" hairs are showing through.
Anyway I do my hair, put on a new top and makeup and it did make me feel better. Tony came home from work and said "have you done something different to your hair?".....lmao he never used to notice me have a cut or colour before! "it looks really nice" of course that made me feel even better.
We head off to a garden nursey and purchase a pot of bamboo and two new grasses for my "grassy" area of the garden - this is just a little corner because our garden is not exactly large by any standards. We also stopped off at Costa Coffee and had a pannini and coffee for lunch. It was good to take some time out and just chat, then we visited another few shops looking for an oblong parasol - the mice had made their home by shredding our last one over winter in the shed - which we found eventually!
Get home and find that the pole on the parasol was larger than the whole in our cast iron table....hmmmmmmm....Tony gets his jigsaw down and disturbs the entire neighbourhoods peaceful Saturday afternoon by enlarging the hole.....bloody hell it was noisy! Finally he finishes puts the parasol up and the sun goes in - sods law! Jack finally comes downstairs and says "Mum have you done something to your hair? It looks good"....oh I must look like some kinda supermodel today - super as in supersize LOL
Around this point I find out that mother nature has made her regular visit - so I am hoping that some of the cruddy feelings and headache was her fault and not just the chemo!
Anyway, we have just finished a fabulous indian takeaway, eaten under our new parasol - as its probably the only time this year it will get used lol - and heard some rustling in the garden, I left some naan bread out there to break up for the birds table......only Ollie has eaten almost one and a half....his belly is soooo fat. Methinks a long walk might be due!
Tomorrow is another grading at Tonys club all his little white belts and I am feeling well enough (tonight anyway) to think I will be able to attend as official photographer!
Hope everyone else is well, love and strength to those recovering, recouperating or generally "breaking bones" Judith!!!!!!!
Thought for today:
Live in a way that is full of life... for yourself, for your loved ones, for your friends. People who do so will find the courage to transform sufferings into hopes. Not only that, but they will be able to light the lamp of hope in the hearts of many others, as well.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Don't plant it in your garden or at least make sure it is well away from buildings or patios etc as the roots can force their way through concrete! I was at a boarding house in Carlisle and they had bamboo in their garden which had destroyed their shed foundations and lifted all of the patio. It's amazing. Glad you have got a parrot's hole. We have had one for years but we didn't need a bigger hole for our parrot's hole - ours is free standing but we haven't had it out for two years because of the inclement weather. No doubt our parrot is much regreting the circumstances! I'm off to be indiscrete with a bottle of Merlot!
hi debs.... good blog as usual, but can i say..... as a hairdresser, if you go to your salon, or phone ahead they will very willingly do your hair for you and should be very understanding and even discreet i have on many occasions done ladies hair that are balding, or thinning, and not only due to cancer,. we all need to feel and look our best, liz xxx
and the blog of course. Does help to look good doesn't it. I've just spent a fortune on my hair to do away with the grey 10 months after stopping chemo and feel great for it. Younger, if not healthier... LOL.
I had the lawn in my garden replaced with a patio this year because I can't manage the upkeep. Now I'm planning to take up the flower beds in a couple of places and plant, guess what...grass. Peaches hates not having any, for eating .. and general purposes...
Only trouble is Liz, all the salons round here have BIG glass windows.........I am thinking of going back to where I got my wig from, they do a cut and colour for post chemo as part of your wig thing....wonder if they will just give me the trim, too scared to colour whilst my scar is so visible and new on top.....will wait for it to have at least a thin covering of down. The wig shop is totally dedicated to alopecia and chemo/balding patients, no walk in customers and all the "work" is done out back in two completely private cubicles. Only annoying thing is that I will need Tony to drive me there as its half hour away.
Drew, it does say "non invasive" on the variety of bamboo we bought but will bear that in mind...I am thinking of sinking the pot into the soil for containment?!
Marly, gardening is energy sapping......we had our entire garden laid to lawn when we moved in (new house) because of Jack being a baby and two more joining him.....we are gradually adding more and more borders to reduce the mowing now LOL
at least you know where to go,see being a hairdresser and my daughter being one as well i dont really know what services the wig people offer, my onc told me NO DYE TILL 6 MONTHS AFTER CHEMO!!!!. i said WHHAAAAT dont you know im a hairdresser????? ok ok he said but wait at least 3 lol, i am lucky enough to be able to go to the salon and close the shutters if i need, and believe me the day the 3 months were up the tint went on lol.
heres hoping yours grows in very fast... mine did i was amazed how quickly it went from sparse to a short looking cut, there was even an occasion at christmas (chemo finished in sept), 12 of dave`s family flew over from england, we were having a meal, and the waitress said to me god, i love your hair i wish i had the nerve to shave mine! we all waited till she left to burst out laughing.
