A Milder Day

I'm having my fifth chemotherapy treatment today. I've already had my pre-meeds so if I start sounding loopy or rambling, that's why :-). It's actually not as cold as I expected and is a pretty nice day, I do see a few scattered snowflakes, but nothing to speak of! As long as it doesn't turn into a repeat of last Wednesday, I'm fine with it! I understand a lot of the employees couldn't even go home last Wednesday because the weather was so bad! To think we complain about hurricanes, at least we get some notice and have time to prepare!

I'm finally having a few side effects from the chemotherapy, some fatigue which isn't so bad, it slows me down and forces me to rest which I wouldn't always do otherwise! So that's a god thing. My hair is also coming out, I have to decide about the henna tattoos, I thought that was a great idea back when the temperatures were probabLy in the 50s & 60s - now with temperatures in the 20's & teens, I'm sort of rethinking that concept - my head gets kind of cold even with hair (even with a hat) so I'm not sure how cold it will be with a naked head! I've heard that you lose most of your body heat through the head, so I'm giving that some thought. Guess my option would be a wig or something, which seems like it would be rather uncomfortable but having a cold head will probably be uncomfortable too. So we will see how that goes - decisions, decisions, it's like going to the hairdresser and going through all those magazines trying to decide on just the right " do"! Actually it would be great to have one of those old- fashioned hairdryers you sat under (I remember my mom had one when I was a kid) I could just pop under there and warm up my head if it got cold - but I haven't seen one of those in years! I wonder what Kojak did during the winter? Should be the same for bald men, right? Who knows, I'll figure it out I'm sure! I should have such problems, there are people with no food and all sorts of other problems, keeping my head warm is hardly a big deal!

I can feel myself starting to doze off from the Benadryl - don't know why it always throws me for such a loop, but it does! I always want to get stuff done during this time and it doesn't cooperate very well! Probably another one of those signs I need to slow down and reattach, whether I like it or not! Oh well, don't guess I have much of a choice, so I'm going to sign off and take a nap! Have a great afternoon, I certainly intend to! Ciao!