The Mane Event!

Monday was a hard day, emotionally, for me. It was the day that my dear friend Coral and I had picked to cut off my mane of hair. I had found a company, while researching my wig options, called "Hats With Hair." I picked an option that allowed me to harvest my hair while still on my head to make a piece that I gan wear with hats and bandanas.

The comforting thing is that I do not have to lose the hair of my identity to the garbage pail....I will always have it.

Anyway, in order to do this, my hair had to be chopped to the scalp with no real cute style possibilities. It was basically the hardest thing I have ever had to do! My hair has been long for my whole lfe, so it was a life changing moment. Thank god it was shared with Coral and Paul! She was amazingly strong and held her tears as she put the scissors to work! We could have cried buckets, but somehow got through it all in reasonably good form!

Yesterday, I mailed the treasured locks off for my next transformation to get through this chemo battle! Fortunately, I have an amazing husband who understands my pain and temporary loss of confidence. I say temporary because he will not let me waver from the hero's journey that I am on and still have many more miles before it is completed!

Today I am ready to go forth with wigs and whatever it takes to wage my battle and then enjoy the spoils of war! I may appear different every time my friends see me now with all of the eclectic things I will be doing to hide my impending baldness.....but something will not have changed!

My Virgo Warrior heart is the same and there is no steering off of this path that I am on to be victorious! My growl is a warm up for the roar that I can feel coming back!