never miss a thing: New hair options-- any thoughts?

Sunday, January 13, 2008

New hair options-- any thoughts?

6 comments:

Kate Richardson said...: Oh yeah! The wigs are going to be really fun!

Going to pull a Brittany before your first treatment?

How was going back to work? How was your first weekend of school? How is your stamina?

Love you!

Kate; January 15, 2008 at 6:53 AM
Kate Richardson said...: So how do you decide between the two different treatment options? Is the oncologist going to pick one?

It does seem really surreal to me to. I can only imagine how surreal it is for you.

Seen any good movies? I really want to see Sweeny Todd. I haven't been out to the movies in months.

K; January 15, 2008 at 6:55 AM
Mallory family said...: does that one in the back come with the beret? If so, pick it fer shur!; January 21, 2008 at 6:27 PM
JAQ said...: Yes...you have arrived. I have to admit that I am a little disappointed that you didn't go with a Dolly P. look-alike...especially since she is a Tennessee girl! I'm sure that you just couldn't find one north of the mason dixon line...I'll put out feelers and see what I can find. love, jilly; January 23, 2008 at 7:51 PM
Anonymous said...: The Brooklyn Blonde?! Love it! With your moxy you can get away with anything. I Know, who says "moxy", the same people that say "schmaltzy".
Haha!
I am watching for more info on Barbie Dream House as a cause.
Love you!
sarabeth; January 29, 2008 at 2:56 PM
Maggie's Ma said...: Sarabeth forwarded this to me. Good luck, and I'll be praying for you. Just think of all the time you will save getting ready in the morning. ;)
Elizabeth Kelley Tipton; January 29, 2008 at 5:37 PM

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YES! It's here! If you want to buy a shirt to help me out with the medical bills as they are starting to pile up, I would greatly appreciate it. If you would rather not, please pass it on to your nosy neighbor to see if they will instead.
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the back story:

So, a couple of months ago my mother told me that one of my good friends growing up was diagnosed with breast cancer and was currently going through chemo treatment to shrink the tumor before operating.(side note about friend: we were best friends from age 5 when they moved in behind us in the neighborhood until middle school when we moved away- we spent countless hours together and our mothers are still good friends)
so when i found out about her it got me thinking that i had not done a self exam in ages - so a few days later in the shower i found it. i read some about tumors and felt sure that it was benign but went ahead and made an appointment to get it looked at.
a few weeks later i was in the dr.s office and he shuttled me down to radiology to get it looked at. he was more alarmed at the size of the mass than the odds that it was cancerous - so he felt it was better to be safe than sorry and had me to get a sonogram and mammogram that next week. he as well as the radiologist assured that the odds were good that it was a fibroatanoma (benign fibrous tumor) but again better to play it safe and have it biopsied just to be sure.
i hadn't heard back from the doctor so i assumed no news was good news. but i will never forget him calling me back - i was in the nashville airport coming back from our girls weekend and he asked when i was back because he wanted me to come in to the office. i told him preferred to know what was going on now since obviously it was bad news. he said that normally he would rather speak to a patient about this in person but under the circumstances he understood. he then gave me the diagnoses and some numbers to call the next morning to set up appointments with surgeon and fertility specialist.
whirlwind flight back that was canceled and resulted in me having a breakdown with the gate agent (poor guy) and i was forced to spend the night in DC wondering what in the world was happening.
i have since met up with my friend from childhood and she has been invaluable to me going through all of this and i hope that we can both support each other throughout the next months... it is just too odd that we are both within a week in age, have similar upbringings and have this diagnoses so close together. all we can think of is that we both licked the paint off the barbie dream house at some point (we were both huge barbie fans and that was the majority of our play time) or there was something funky in the creek behind our neighborhood. i do plan on doing more research on this because the similarities are just too much but for now i am blaming it on the barbie dream house

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Sunday, January 13, 2008

New hair options-- any thoughts?

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