Wait and See

Hey everyone - sorry it has been so long since my last post but I am finally feeling a little better and closer to my normal self (well as normal as that ever was.)

I have been trying to keep myself busy during the days with a variety of projects, none of which seem to be cleaning the house or unloading the dishwasher (much to B's dismay... just kidding honey) The most recent project I have picked up is an old scrapbook that I started, oh about four years ago, and have rekindled my romance with scrapbooking.  Apparently this project trumps the two needlepoint projects that I currently have going on, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the hats I need to make for the hospital or the page full of thank you notes I need to write -- so to all of you who sent me a heartfelt gift for my birthday, I promise your thank you note is coming and I LOVED everything!!

Besides piling crafting projects on myself, I have also been working at trying to get my head down to totally bald - as I mentioned in my last post, I thought it was imminent - now it is pretty much a reality.  I have recently learned a few things about being bald and hair loss:

1. it isn't as easy to lose hair, when it is super short - I have since come up with a solution (that is to come later)

2. a smooth head seems to stick to everything.  Just yesterday I was laying on the couch with what I like to think are my softly lotioned hands, and low and behold - my hands STUCK to my head.  How many lucky people can say that?!

3. your head really is a huge heat conductor - it was 70-something degrees and I was walking around the house with a cashmere beanie on.

As I have been trying to enjoy the weather, I have also been trying to not burn more superwhite scalp to a crisp. I never knew how fairskinned I really was - I mean it is astonishing. Thank god I tan easily or I could give Nicole Kidman a run for her money...  I mean people say fair skin is back in, but I think two-tone is the next thing, tan face and white scalp is really the look of the future.  

According to my mother, I have never been this bald, EVER, not even when I was a baby - so needless to say, it has been an interesting experience for all those involved. SO as I mentioned in bald-point-number-one, getting to this almost bald status has been challenging to say the least.  I was really hoping for a mass exodus that would leave me Doctor-Evil bald but instead we have had to use some interesting means to get there.  I have certain spots on my head that felt out entirely, I have some that seem to be holding on for some reason and then I have others that needed a little assistance. So M and B decided to give a lintroller a twirl - that's right, the same contraption you use to gather up errant pet hair. Miraculously it works! So to rid myself of Dalmatian spots and to achieve total smoothness, I have been lintrolling my head to nab those pesky spots. Below are a couple of photos, the first was last week and since then I am a bit more smooth :) 

My eyebrows will be falling out shortly, but I am prolonging their demise for as long as I can AND thanks to Latisse, my eyelashes seem to be holding strong. I am going to continue using it through transplant and see how it works.

So, this is a status update on me - the next thing I really have to do is go in on May 3 for my PET Scan and a battery of other tests over at Dana Farber.  As I mentioned before, please please think positive thoughts for CR and keep me in your prayers.

Enjoy your weekends everyone!