My Pity Party is Over

A new look for the wig poll?
This is the color I really wanted to dye my hair - Smurf Blue.

Sure was hard to have a good pity party for myself (see my last post). That very night I was overwhelmed with gestures from friends and family. One friend made a very extravagant dinner for us, another made a berry pie (both brought their very adorable kids over to play with) and my family sent a cancer care package - which included one Smurf Blue wig!

Crab stuffed shrimp in a creamy pasta, with crab cakes to start!

The pie and the pie maker with her beautiful baby boy!

Cancer Care Package with so much great stuff I can't begin to list it all.

Thank you all for your prayers, emails, cards, phone calls and gifts. I am so blessed - touched - overwhelmed by it all at once.

Oh, and I spoke too soon about not losing my hair. It has started. I might not have any left by this time next week. I guess I don't have as much guts as I thought I did, because I haven't shaved it off yet. I am still hoping for "thinning". No clumps of hair are falling out, and my pillow is still ok in the morning, but not sure what tomorrow will bring. It's harder than I thought, which makes me feel silly and vain for caring so much about hair -which will grow back and doesn't hurt physically at all to lose. It's totally mental. But really sucks. I guess maybe pray for me to have a better sense of humor about it, so I don't take it or myself so seriously.

What is really annoying, is I still have hair growing all over the rest of my body - still shaving my legs everyday and the hair on my arms is as fuzzy as ever. What is that?

Wait until you see the pictures of the house from this weekend. We are finishing the tiling in the master shower and Matt is doing a great job. Hopefully the pictures do it justice.

Peace, MEA