Nicki,

The hair and beard stuff will most likely return to normal. I had not cut my hair this year because the radiated area in conjuntion with the chemo created a little swatch of curls. Being asian descent, I have never had even a slight curl in my hair. I wanted to trim it up a bit for a job interview and the cutest of the curls are gone confused . Of all the things, I wanted this one thing to not go back to the way it was before cancer. God certainly has a sense of humor!

We had a family portrait done just before everything started and it is prominently displayed where we all see it as soon as we leave our bedrooms. I may still look a bit "undernourished" compared to the picture but I planted some winter rye that will look like a golf course all winter and get cut 1-2 times a week and a bit over a hundred flowers in the front flower beds. I missed that the past two winters with various illnesses. (I sneaked a peak at the flowers twice already this morning laugh .)

I am glad to hear the mammogram was good!

Ed

SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023