Got your attention? Excellent!
I’m serious. One of the things I’m not allowed to do is shave. I’ve discovered exactly how hairy I am as I come up on three months of no shave time. I’m not that hairy. But I’ve only let my leg hair get to the ‘flowing in the wind’ stage once in the last five years. I’m at that stage and a bit beyond. I’m at the ‘static is making them stand straight out’ phase I guess. It feels a bit odd.
Why can’t I shave? Well, I could be anemic. Anemia is bad when you cut yourself since it causes the blood to not clot so hot. Also, I could not be that anemic and knick myself and possibly introduce infection into my body.
Infections are always bad. Currently? Much more so.
Yes. I got my flu shot. Pushing husband man to get his ASAP as well. And since he’s my proofreader, he’ll see this first! Haha!
My travel on Halloween was just fine. I observed that a TSA agent had dressed as a TSA agent and she responded: Nailed it! Yep. She did. It was totally on point.
The job was nice. It was nice to meet some new coworkers and see friends I’d met at other events like this one. I was a little tired most of the time, and I feel like I’m pretty antisocial most of the time lately. Apologies if I was not as bright and cheery as usual. I hadn’t had my B12.
I also got to meet up with friends from college on Sunday! That was nice. Especially since college was, oh, 17 years ago now? Something like that.
Overall I had a fabulous weekend. I’m thinking that is my last trip away from home before surgery and stuff, unless I can slide something in early next year between appointments.
Ah. Appointments. Next week will be blood work - at least it’s only once a month now, so I have some available for them - and an ultrasound and my oncology appointment where my oncologist pokes around and still can’t feel anything. It’s required by the clinical trial that I get my tatas prodded one or two times a month.
The week after that I’ll have my first real appointment with my surgeon. I’ll have to start making decisions. I’ve been reading about things and looking things up and getting freaked out and going back and forth. Still no implants for me. Not my jam. But do I consider reconstruction and the longer recovery time? Or not?
Pros of reconstruction: You have tatas.
Pros of ‘going flat’: You can wear different size tatas on different days when you see the same people and confuse the hell out of them.
We shall see.
This week, not much to report. I’ve had trouble sleeping a few nights. Could be anxiety. Could be my chocolate is a vegetable diet. Who knows. And every morning I wake up and have to blow my nose at least six times to get all the snot out. I know you wanted to know that. Anyway, that prompted a google search and now I see that there is, in fact, research relating mucus to breast cancer and other cancers.
Who knew?
Maybe all this snot is the cancer being expelled from my body. I kind of like that idea. A really strong sneeze? Cancer is cured! Sweet.