Ride the Wave

My hair is growing back like a wave. I have no idea if this is just how my hair has always been, or if I'm going to have some curl when it gets longer. But for real guys....the front looks a wave about to make a perfect curl that would be any surfer's dream. Be jealous.

I've included two photos, one styled with product and one without, so you can try to catch my vibe. 

And seriously.....can we SEE those lashes and brows?? Almost fully grown back in 2 months thanks to Revitalash products!

(Wearing bigger earrings and my glasses with shorter hair was harder to get used to than I thought it would be.)

I'm getting tons of compliments on my hair....both that it looks cute and that people are surprised that it's so dark!! I had everyone fooled into thinking I was a true California blonde. So, Melinda.....great job on my blonde.  You had everyone fooled! Haha. 

The insecure girl in me can't decide if people are complimenting me because they feel bad for me or because they truly like the hair. Jury is still out on that. I like it MOST of the time, but I have my moments where I still feel like a "cancer patient." My melanoma screening was negative, thank God, so I don't consider myself a cancer patient. I am a cancer FREE patient who gets preventative maintenance every 3 weeks.

I also went a few weeks ago and got my nose re-pierced. The piercing grew closed in October when they made me remove it for my second port placement. I had only had it since the preceding March, and it closed in the 4 hours I had it out. I was SO upset by that. It felt like cancer had taken another piece of "me" and I was MAD. I was going to wait until all this is over to get it again, but then realized there was no sense in that. If it grows closed again, I'll just keep going back in to get it shoved back through. I'm keeping this part of me and not letting it go again.

I've begun to feel so much better over the last couple of weeks. More like my old self. Work and life are SO much easier when you don't feel like poo all the time, and I'm so grateful. I still have days where the side effects of the medicine affect me, but those days are becoming more manageable. 

I'm tired. It's been a long, tough school year for more reasons than just the cancer. I'm looking forward to Spring Break next week as a true break; my first one in quite a while. I have a few appointments next week to do some scans ahead of my reconstruction. Those scans will be the deciding factor on whether or not I'm a candidate for the flap reconstruction. Prayers that I have good blood vessels would be appreciated!