@poptart it is just cruel!
My head is soooo itchy today!! Apparently its the stronger hair pushing through the baby fluff! I’ve been saying to everyone at work, you can see it isn’t nits! lol
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@loupy Im sucking it up - absolutely detest it but need to get through this stage to get a bit of normal me back! I pushed it out for pics before I had a shower. After, mousse, 2 anti frizz serum n potion plus hairspray to weld it down. Ive tried to wear big head band but look like a bloody idiot. Just not me. Look in a mirror and see my Nan. BUT can look in a mirror, my hair is growing and not dead. Only thing making me sane. Cancer kicked, vanity follows.
@tessie86 Might sound weird but I ‘washed my hair’ everyday and gave it a good massage. It was covered in red pimples from hair popping through. Massage helps the tips escape. Hope it helps.
K
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Ooo thank goodness its normal to have the spots! I will start doing that thank you 
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Don’t think I’m a hair and type either not that I need it yet 
I need to look into product for when it does get a bit longer, never had short hair so this is a learning curve!
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@lumpybyebye I share your pain: my hair looks disturbingly like my mum’s did when she was in a nursing home in her late 80s!
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Bleugh, feeling rough as hell! Mostly over ZA infusion, had my Spring covid booster today. 1am and feel crap.
Need to get it together to support my friend at her Mum’s funeral from BC later today 
It is gonna be tough. So many mixed feelings. Head is overwhelmed TBH.
K
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Lots of love @lumpybyebye thats a tough one for you x hope you feel better to get through a tough day like that is bad enough without feeling like crap too! ZA first one is awful (I’ve read multiple times it’s just the first) and then Covid booster on top! Crikey you take care! 
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@lumpybyebye I haven’t had ZA, but the Covid booster alone was enough to completely floor me a few weeks ago. I felt awful with it (think I posted on here at the time). Good news is that it was short lived and only lasted about 24 hours. Alternate paracetamol and ibuprofen if you can.
I’m so sorry about your friend’s mum, that is so tough. I imagine you are having so many mixed emotions and I admire you for having the strength to be able to support your friend. Please just take it easy though and be realistic about what you can cope with today. You must think about yourself as well. It’s a big ask of yourself given everything you’ve been through and are still going through, both physically and emotionally. Take care and take hope it goes ok x
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Oh , I’m getting a spotty head too, glad I’m not alone!!! I’ve been massaging moogoo scalp cream in as it feels a bit dry too ( as well as rosemary oil , although not sure if that’s doing anything ?) xx
I am using the exact same combination @nib32 just feels nice to massage them in even if theyre not doing alot 
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In my case it is spotty eye lids, it is truly uncomfortable. Been using some specific eye cleansing wipes which help a little.
I am still have radiotherapy to go but dreading being sent out in the world. Having to have an MRI in September of the good boob followed by surgeon appointment is oddly comforting.
Foundations dreams has a few articles about how to cope with Life after Cancer. I have found their resources excellent so far.
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@prisci Sounds like might be blepharitis like I have? Have you tried applying a hot compress on eyes and then a massage to get oil glands unblocked? That may help? xx
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@lumpybyebye hope today went ok been thinking of you
@loupy
It was honestly a bit surreal. My friend’s Mum had a lovely service. I sat looking at her coffin - only 69, married 52 yrs.
For her, 5yrs ago lumpectomy, 2 yrs layer mastectomy, just before Xmas very depressed, took to her bed. Widespread mets found March. She had known in herself what it was. Devastating.
I couldn’t face the burial itself. Too much. I’ve been physically in bits all day. The covid booster is brutal this time. I’m feeling pain everywhere like a rush of fire going joint to joint. But shouldn’t complain, I can feel, always worse outcomes.
Need to sleep, turn my silly head off but can’t get comfy. Unreal, that I start my final adjuvant treatment on Friday, last of my ‘spray and pray’ medicine. Ribociclib is gonna be a b’stard but a treatment I wouldnt have had available a year ago on NHS. Kick my arse so I can kick cancer cells out for good. Feck off glitter.
Hope RT is nearly done for you. Keep slapping on the cream.
Kx
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Oh @lumpybyebye 
not surprised you couldn’t face the burial that must have been so hard for you, your friend is very lucky to have you as a friend and for you to go to support her as hard as it was for you x hope you got some sleep 
xxx
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I remember the Monday following my diagnosis on the Friday was the funeral of a friend of ours. She died of cancer. She was only 43. I simply couldn’t attend the funeral. I was terrified I’d get over emotional and make it all about me so I went for a drink after the service to pay my respects, and even that was hard to do…my legs couldn’t carry me. I’m very sorry about your friend, it is always hugely painful. x
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Oh @lumpybyebye I’m sorry I’ve fallen out of the loop, with following WhatsApp have missed stuff on here. This must have been so very hard for you in so many ways, and amazing that you have been able to be there for your friend. Sending many hugs xxxx
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I just don’t understand any of it…
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Well today is my 1st Canceraversary. Found out via text message - thank you NHS app for giving me the details of my oncologist appointment before I’d been told I was being referred on! Magnificent fail. 
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Goodness that is shocking @lumpybyebye Sending lots of love your way. I guess all the anniversaries we don’t want to mark are going to creep up now.
I said to my mum to save the 12th September, as its the anniversary of when I was told i had cancer, and I intend to book something like a rage room and we can really go at it!
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