Level of nervousness - High to Very High
Kilos still to lose - 3
Hair status - Very Short to Short
Today I stepped back into the Smurfs opium den to have my blood taken for the routine checkup tests. Looking round at all the people looking so ill having their chemo, I felt almost embarrassingly loud and healthy. I know I am quite often embarrassingly loud (according to my daughter) - but the feeling of robust good health seemed very out of place, and made me realize that perhaps I had been quite sick, after all, in those last few months and just didn't realize it. Good to only know that after the event.
The concept of the tests is a scary one - I feel (as I think I mentioned....) really great. I assume on a daily basis that I am cured - so much so that days go by when I don't actually think about The Thing at all - which I couldn't have believed was possible a few months ago. So the idea of willingly going in to "check" and potentially be told that all is not well in the rose garden is an odd one - but must be done.
There is also the very real possibility of a sound telling off from Papa Smurf, since I still need to lose 3kg and have singularly failed to stick to the one-unit-a-week alcohol "suggestion". I suspect the two might be linked. I also think it was a silly suggestion.
The Operation Elfin exercise programme isn't going so well either.....
Follicle News
I have had many requests for a hair update. Well, much movement on that front:
- eyebrows and eyelashes are back - hurray!
- body hair is back - booooooo!
My head hair got really quite long in its little old man, wispy and totally see-through incarnation - not a good look - I moved from Dobby (through Winky - as a result of all the Butterbeer) to Kreacher. It got longer and longer, but no thicker and less see-through - and was all a bit sad, really. Then lo! Suddenly a new layer of proper hair arrived underneath.......
So I dug out the Epilady again - and shaved off all the Kreacher hair - and have started again with the proper hair, which is now growing at the rate of knots. It is currently the color and texture of a brillo pad (without the pink powder, obviously, although that is an idea) and I would say 1cm long. Growth rate approx 0.5cm a week.
Later......
Hours since first check-up - 24
Level of nervousness - None
Kilos still to lose - 4 (how did THAT happen)
Hair status - Very Short to Short
All good news.
As serene and zen-like as ever
Jo xxx
