Sunday, July 6, 2008

AKA Kojak

Back from my trip to Costa Rica. Rebecca and Adam's wedding was beautiful and we had a lot of fun, it was lovely to see two people so much in love. I felt very well while I was away, no heartburn, no fatigue, aches or pains, the only thing was an upset stomach on a regular basis. I wore a mask on the plane and of course got many a look, my god has no one ever seen Michael Jackson, at least I looked better than him. I tried to avoid getting mosquito bites, (due to an outbreak of Dengue fever spread by mosquito's) so used lots of natural repellents and minimised the bites. Fiona let everyone know she got 16 bites the first night. I really just relaxed, soaked up the sun and ate good food, seared ahi every night (tuna for you foreigners).
They said my hair would start coming out around day 14 to 21, they were dead on about that, basically coming out in handfuls starting on day 15. I know it's only hair but it really was quite distressing to see so much come out with washing, brushing sleeping etc; within 2 days I'd probably lost about half of my hair, today I got fed up and had Fiona shave the rest off, so I can now go by the name Kojak. ( no pictures of this new style) This is probably the first time I've seen Fiona clam up and be upset, I don't look like me according to her and she "doesn't like it."
I should have had my next treatment tomorrow, however I changed it to Thursdays so that I can work Mon, Tue Wed have treatment Thursday and recover Frid, Sat and Sun, so that is my plan at the moment and looking forward to continuing the party.
Again thanks to everyone for everything, without all the support and words of encouragement, this woould be a much harder battle.
Karen xx