JPD's blog

I've officially done with radiation. For now anyway. It's nice to be at home and looking forward to doing weight loss activities like going to the gym and going for a walk to the shops to buy stuff that I don't need. I need to cut my hair tonight as well which will be a lot of fun - with my cheap and nasty petrol station clippers - and leave all of the bits everywhere. Ugh. Never mind. That's what vacuums are there…

Hi all, Had all of my hair shaved off at the weekend and i'm still getting used to it. It's quite cold up top so i'm wearing a nice new hat bought for me by my darling dearest. My hair is quite whispy where the beams go in, which is not unexpected I suppose. I just hope that it grows back nicely like it was before without going curly or turning any odd colour. No white woman's afro for me thank you very much. Although…

I take a wide variety of medications but over the past two days I have had the worst joint pain in my knees when I wake up. Not so bad that I can't walk but bad enough that it keeps me awake. Anyone else have this or know what could be causing it? JD x

As the title says I started to lose my hair yesterday. My scalp had been hurting for a few days and I ran my hands through my hair and a little clump came out. Well... If a little clump comes out then there's obviously more to come so I had a lovely half an hour pulling hair out of my head. What can I say apart from the fact that it had that bubble wrap addictive quality. So now I have a little bald (thinning to be…

Hi all, Woke up this morning with the worst headache that i've had on radiotherapy (thus far). Not completely debilitating but still painful enough to have a day in the PJs watching 'How clean is your house?' And do I feel smug that my house is cleaner than some of these people? I sure do. I confess to being a bit of a hoarder but not to the level of these mingers. Lordy! How can these people live with all the…