Fun Game Ideas

Okay here's today's challenge -- Denise pointed out that if we only had some of those lightweight velcro balls, we (well, you) could toss them at my head to see how many would stick...what other fun games with a fuzzy head can we come up with??

Hope you all had a lovely holiday and have good plans for New Year's. We are definitely going out, I think the general consensus among our friends is that we all want to kick 2008 out with a vengeance. Hooray!

Creepy Old Man Head -- Technical Medical Term for my hair regrowth

Ewww.

But still. It has to start somewhere. So curly black it is.

We did it! Scans came back with no changes to the baseline (i.e., cancer has not increased from the seven weeks ago when I finished chemo....generally accepted as a good thing). I will have one more scan in three weeks..or maybe six weeks? (Jack if you are reading, can you post and confirm?) If that scan is all good, then scans will only be every three MONTHS. Hooray!!

And my lovely friend and nurse Dawn gave me the most wonderful little gift -- she had her whole family put good wishes and love into a beautiful orange (my favorite!) and yellow glass heart, that is currently living on my windowsill where sunlight (if we had some) will stream through it.

Thanks for all of your good thoughts and wishes -- love you all!

Cosmic YOP!

Okay, all you Whos down in Whoville....Tuesday is my scans day to find out if the Alimta is working.

I want it to be working. I have a ton of energy, my hair is growing back (My dome currently looks like a dirty snowball, according to Lucie...) and so far, except for maybe this weird puffy eye thing, I am having no side effects.

So, please, if you think of it between now and Tuesday, please think positive thoughts my way -- every little bit helps, as we have all learned from our wise friend Horton the Elephant...

xxoo, mp

No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition!

Or the REALLY weird side effects that can come with cancer treatments. Check out my eyelashes.

Trichomegaly of the eyelashes, they call it.

A very rare side effect of Erbitux (which I am no longer on). They are literally so long and tangled that I look like I have mascara and black eyeliner on, 24/7. Which is kind of cool, I guess, except that there's a reason I don't usually wear that kind of makeup - and that's because I look like a floozy raccoon because my eyes are so small...

What else? Oh yes, I finally got my entire face waxed -- got rid of all of the swiflty growing BLACK hair on my upper lip, chin and even cheeks. I know what all those nervous looks were about....that I was really a shape shifter, and I was going to turn into a wolf at any moment...

Now if my bald head would catch on to all this hair growth going on around it, I would be a happy woman!

Christmas List

1. technology to post these freakin' radio spots!

It's just not working...I have uploaded, stored, shipped...and it just doesn't happen. So. If you want to hear the PSA radio spots we did, you will need to ask me to email them, as they are not postable in my blog. Bad blog!

Humbug.

Testing, testing...1-2-3..Is this thing on??

http://boxstr.com/browse/melissynp/4025454