Here we go again....

In 2008, I was diagnosed with DCIS, the precursor to "REAL" breast cancer. Being young, I decided to take a very aggressive approach to this and opted for a bi-lateral mastectomy with reconstruction. No radiation, no chemo., no hormones & only a 1 % chance of reoccurance, seemed like a good percentage at the time, but not so much these days.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

November 2012


I am here and doing well, no worries Jeff, my blog friend who emailed me this week and was hoping all was well and missing the updates. I have actually been too busy to blog and not with medical things.
First, we have need to cover the matter of hair growth. Here it is, the past month's action on my head.



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You can see in this last picture that it is getting thick. I have been massaging in Euphora Hair Thickening serum twice a day. There appears to be more black and less gray too.

We had Halloween this past month. We went to a friends party and I took the opportunity to pull out my mother's day Chemosabe headress for my costume. Andy, is of course, a classic Lone Ranger. he didn't break character all night, I think he missed his calling as an actor, he really loves getting dressed up and into character.
Doesn't this look inviting? This is my new office @ Syracuse University Health Services Psychiatry. I started working full time again on October 16th, so it's been about one month and I am surviving and loving it.
This is my work wig! Don't want to freak the students out with my extremely short hair at this point. I am hoping my January that my hair will be log enough to do away with the wig cause it gets kinda itchy under there.
Brand new Couple - my bestie Janet, from college, got married last weekend. yeah Janet and Chip, aren't they so cute and happy. It was my first wedding in a long time and I did not disappoint, I cried the minute she entered the church!
Old couple alert. here are Andy and I at the reception. It was great getting together with friends from college again, but we learned things are different when you wait to get married. Such as, no tail gating in the church parking lot before the ceremony and being ready to go home to bed by 9:30pm. Yes, we are getting old people.
 So, Thanksgiving is next week and we obviously have alot to be thankful for. I have made it through yet another battle with breast cancer, so now we can all move on to the real breast of the moment, Mr. Turkeys!