Show us your nuts! (Nude nuts that is...)

Nic, you look wonderful, I am hoping that when my 8mm fuzz (from my crew cut) is gone I look as good as you and Joey.

I don't actually mind my crew cut, it is so much easier and doesn't look too bad, I went out yesterday without a hat on _ to the hosptial fo rmy oncologists appointment and then to grab some groceries at a localshopping centre (small one and in middle of day, when less crowded), I got a few strange looks, but I DON'T care, they are the ones with the problems NOT ME.

I had the sore tongue thing too and found that sucking on icy poles (in my case mini calypos) was amazing, helped to cool and numb my sore burning tongue, but be careful not to hold it in one spot for too long becasue youdon't want frostbite on your tongue.

I used to live in mirboo North, so have been through Sale and Bairnsdale etc MANY MANY times, and I still have family around the hazelwood/ Morwell area, so come through on occasion to visit (although it has ben awhile since I have ben down your way).

Good to hear you are doing well, I am doing pretty good with side effects too. Saw my oncologist yesterday and he is happy with my progress, so I am on for Monday (Cycle 2) and have to keep taking the last of the antibiotics (another 3 1/2 days worth) to makes sure the infection is DEAD.

I was told that reflux can be a side effect of some chemo drugs and they can give you something to help with it (I already take something as I have reflux from med's I take for another condition), and they really do help the reflux, so maybe you could get something to help with that.

I have eating issues in that I have NO appetite, I force myself to eat, but am only eating small portions. Things I used to love I now DETEST (like eggs I cannot STAND the smell or thought of eating cooked eggs and I used to love omelettes and scrambled eggs (just typing this makes me shudder, and feel sick, I smelt some cooking the other day when I went shopping and had to leave the area, becasue the smell made me sick).

Well I got my buzz cut yesterday. my hair is now 8mm long but looks shorter because my hair is so fine it doesn't stick out, but it sort of lays next to my haead. I actually don't mind it. Kind of feels funny and looks OK and thank goodness no more tying myself in knots and choking on my below shoulder length hair. There was a delay in the plans, because I spent 11 hours yesterday in the ER with suspected pneumonia or gallstones, after lots and lots of tests they aren't 100% sure what it is but the only thing that showed up on the tests was anemia (expected due to the chemo) and some "gunk" in my lower right lung - which they think is a lower lung infection that is beginning to clear (I had an upper lung infection for a week and have been on oral antibiotics which I finished yesterday and they gave me another 5 day course, to make sure the infection dies). My neutrophil count was good, as were all of my other immune cells.

So we got to it last night instead and I am HAPPY, it feels so much better, it SO much neater and I am not leaving great handfuls of hair in trails behind me where ever I go.

I also have the brazillian by face washer occuring <LOL> haven't notice the arm and leg hair (although it is not growing very fast, so not having to shave etc very often) or eyebrows and eyelashes yet, but it is early days for me.

Photo(s)to come - didn't take any yet, because I was so exhausted yesterday - went to the ER at 4am (after the community nurses who I called told me I had to) with only 1 hrs sleep and got maybe 1-2 hours sleep in the 11 hours I was there, that coupled with my chemo fatigue, I could barely keep my eyes open, for most of the day. night, but not get any/ much sleep in the ER.

Well I got my buzz cut yesterday. my hair is now 8mm long but looks shorter because my hair is so fine it doesn't stick out, but it sort of lays next to my haead. I actually don't mind it. Kind of feels funny and looks OK and thank goodness no more tying myself in knots and choking on my below shoulder length hair. There was a delay in the plans, because I spent 11 hours yesterday in the ER with suspected pneumonia or gallstones, after lots and lots of tests they aren't 100% sure what it is but the only thing that showed up on the tests was anemia (expected due to the chemo) and some "gunk" in my lower right lung - which they think is a lower lung infection that is beginning to clear (I had an upper lung infection for a week and have been on oral antibiotics which I finished yesterday and they gave me another 5 day course, to make sure the infection dies). My neutrophil count was good, as were all of my other immune cells.

So we got to it last night instead and I am HAPPY, it feels so much better, it SO much neater and I am not leaving great handfuls of hair in trails behind me where ever I go.

I also have the brazillian by face washer occuring <LOL> haven't notice the arm and leg hair (although it is not growing very fast, so not having to shave etc very often) or eyebrows and eyelashes yet, but it is early days for me.

Photo(s)to come - didn't take any yet, because I was so exhausted yesterday - went to the ER at 4am (after the community nurses who I called told me I had to) with only 1 hrs sleep and got maybe 1-2 hours sleep in the 11 hours I was there, that coupled with my chemo fatigue, I could barely keep my eyes open, for most of the day. night, but not get any/ much sleep in the ER.

Hi Nic!  You look fab with a nude nut!

maybe we should suggest buzz cuts for all in times of drought....4 minute showers would be down to about a minute (esp for chemo patients..no hair anywhere else to get rid of) !

nic  x

Hey Nic40

Well done babe.  You are one of the ones that would be beautiful with or without hair, be proud and walk tall.

I know what you mean about not having to wash your hair and saving billions on products.

I used to dread having a shower cause the whole hair thing used to take forever, not now hee hee

Hubby can't believe I can have a quicker shower than him now.

Mich x

so here's my nude nut !

I am loving not having to wash my hair everyday and the amount I'm saving on product!

so here's my nude nut !

I am loving not having to wash my hair everyday and the amount I'm saving on product!

Im day 7 post chemo ( had it wednesday in SALE), and i became very dehydrated! Apparently i was withdrawing off the Dexamethasone badly, my pulse was averageing around 95-100 bpm for most of this week, today is good, at 65. I was almost admitted on a drip, but i got stuck into bottle after bottle of water and an electrolyte icy pole to rehydrate, worked! So today is an awsome day for me :) Also i got great news off my chemo specialist yesterday, I can now do my chemo in Bairnsdale, 30 min away instead of 1.5hrs! And the oncology unit is only 12 mnths old and its soooo nice!!! And i know the food is good there! Travelling to SALE made me anxious and sick in itself, i hated staying in overnight away from my boys and my man having to travel all the time. I may stay in o/n again, as this chemo will be the last of the nasty stuff, and apparently it will hit hard, after this i get Dositaxyl ( spelt wrong), thats a more user friendly type and i wont be so ill, so, one more hit of shit, then its 3 of the other, then off to radio for 6 weeks.

Im glad your going away! Sounds beautiful, I intend to make a trip too, not sure where, but after all this i think i deserve it, so does my man. We women go through alot to keep breathing, no matter how much we want to quit at times., but our family suffer as well.

And yes, my bikini line is sooo smooth! hahahaha, my legs are great!

Stay strong girl, stay well!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxx