Hair Today…Gone Tomorrow

I’ll start off by saying that my hair (this includes my head, face, arms, legs…and all those other unmentionable places that I grow hair.) started to grow back at a pretty good clip…I even started to grow the goatee back….

That’s pretty much where the hair growing fun stops.  To bring you all up to date…I’ve now got 13 radiation treatments under my belt, so that means only 4 left to go.  This would usually be a very good thing…light at the end of the tunnel and all that crap.  But as I went to get into the shower this morning I ran my hand over my beautiful new crop of facial hair, and when I looked at my hand…AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!  There in my hand was my new beard!  Yup…the radiation is starting to make my beard and the hair on the back of my neck fall out.  I thought I was over the hairless thing…guess not.

That is only one of the fun side affects of being radiated.  My saliva production has dropped off dramatically, making my mouth feel slimy and gross all the time.  And, to boot, I have a hard time swallowing everything from water to…well, everything.  Not to mention the early sun burn feeling that I’ve got on my chest and back.  Who’s got a sun burn in February?  This guy.

Needless to say it’s been a pretty crappy couple of days.  I don’t really want to do anything when I get home from treatment.  I’ve found that I need to force myself to get stuff done.  Don’t get my wrong…there’s plenty for me to do around here…there’s dishes, laundry, floors, dusting, all house work in general and then all the little projects that I would like to get done like building a table or returning some beer bottles.  I just don’t want to do them.  My motivation has gone out the window.  It was all I could do to think of what I was going to write on here…as you can see, I decided to make this a bitch session. (I figured I was due for one)

Well, it’s time for me to take my skirt off and put on some big boy pants and get some shit done around here. I know that in the long run…I’ve had it pretty easy when it comes to cancer.

~ by jaybyrdslim on February 6, 2008.