Saturday 13th November
You will note that my posts are currently few and far between. This is because chemotherapy is a very tedious three week Groundhog Day.
My whole life is dictated by the three phases of chemotherapy.
Week One - ill and tired.
Week Two - avoid the great unwashed for fear of contracting some quite ordinary disease for which I have no immunity.
Week Three - almost back to normal, ready to start the whole process again!
My hair is starting to fall out although it still looks relatively normal, but it is getting very thin and that wind sure does whistle around my head. As a consequence of this development I have decided to dispense with the cold cap which is heavy, cold (obviously!) and generally a bit of an endurance exercise. So I am looking at having a bald Christmas, maybe I'll write a song...
Anyway, since my hair is falling out I have looked again with renewed depression at my "lovely" free wig. The main problem with it is that it has way too much hair. So having seen an article in The Mail on Sunday, You magazine I looked at Trevor Sorbie's website. He has started up a charity called My New Hair which deals with medical hair loss in that he has trained hairdressers around the country to style wigs so that they are a little more presentable. Fortunately there is a lady in Harrow who does this so I will let you know how I get on.
For your information here is the website. www.mynewhair.org
I also learned that because I have cancer I am entitled to free prescriptions. I filled in FP92 form at my doctors, they complete the rest of it and send it off. Ten days later I have my exemption card which lasts for 5 years. This covers all prescriptions not just those associated with cancer, which is nice.
As for pregnancy, no I am not pregnant, but I find that chemotherapy is similar to being pregnant in that, it is constantly there, it occupies my every waking moment, even when I am feeling relatively normal. Like pregnancy, however much I might wish to, I cannot "give" it to someone else for a while and have time off. Still unlike pregnancy this will last only 4 months and will not result in a little financial sponge which sucks all my money out off my wallet!
last para is bloody genius - only you could make the analogy between pregnancy and chemo! must be very annoying to feel so well and then have to feel so ill from side effects (following simon on parallel blog who is having chemo for leukemia presently know he finds side effects very hard)
ReplyDeletereally genius idea by trevor sorbie however and do i have permission to play natty turbans and hats with you at christmas? who do i have to kid, ben will do it!!
i am better (made it to work last wednesday but had to stay home thurs to recover!)
talk soon xxx