Hello everyone

Congrats on the HALFWAY mark - I hit that the cycle before this (I am now 4 down, 2 to go YAY!). It is lovely of your hubby to sit with yuo during chemo, I send mine home - I get him to drop me off and pick me up but I don't let him sit with me, becasue he does and then his back seizes and he is in agony and can't walk and as he does all the housework and cooking I need him fit and healthy <LOL>, (He broke his back, snowboarding - NO cord damage thank goodness, in 2 places about 10 years ago and the wonderful medical team onthe mountain missed it and told him it was muscular, so it was never treated and healed wrong (He was a snowboard and ski instructor), and now sitting in the wrong chairs does his back big time issues. So I send him home, I have had a friend with me once and I know a couple of the ladies I do chemo with (1 has her herceptin on the same day who I know from our support group(s), and the other has chemo the same day, but is a cycle or 2 behind me I think, so we chat and talk and giggle, as do the other ladies and men I have chemo with - my chemo clinic is a  little one - about 8 chairs and 3 beds, and about 6 nurses, so lovely and intimate and friendly), and we tend to be on the same day each cycle and thus see each other regularly.

Have fun planning your YAY CHEMO IS OVER party. Have a ball - Man we earn it with chemo, and something to look forward to at the end is good for you. I haven't decided what I am going to do when my chemo is over.

Admin work for a couple of hours a week if youcan tolerate it might be good, but yeah stay away from the cats,especially the sick ones and the litter trays etc, you can get REALLY sick from them when on chemo.

When my hair started the fall out in clumps I had hubby shave it to a number 2 (about 8mm long) made the mess much easier to deal with, and wore hats etc. I was shedding so bad,it was in my dinner, in trails behind me, blocking the shower, smothering my pillow and I woke choking on it from the pillow twice (not good), much prefered it when it was shaved. I am totally bald now and honestly don't mind it, in fact I prefer it to the number 2. I go out with hats on or nothing, if I  get hot I whip my hat off and walk around bald, I rarely get stares or comments etc, and if I do get stares then I think THEY have the problem and NOT me, and if I get comments I just tell them I am undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer usually they are just curious, if you have cancer, alopecia or have shaved it off for another reason (we have a buddist temple here and they shave there heads, but are usually wearing buddists monks robes, and I believe we have hari crishnas here too, who also shave there heads, and then there is the shave for a cure thing etc.). I have NO PROBLEMS answering questions etc - if it is little kids, I tell them I have a germ and the medicine to make me better makes my hair fall out (this has mostly been family and firends kids - I have NEVER had a child at a mall etc ask, but would be HAPPY to tell them why (i have no probelms with kids curiosity)).

Embrass your baldness (thinning), your hand painted scarves sound pretty, you should post a picture in the creative corner ?.