Hello everyone, Just read through and caught up with everyone's news, which I'm pleased to see is largely positive. I see there has been some talk about grey hair - I saw my first greys in my teens and dyed it for years, finally in my early 40s I thought stuff this dying lark and embraced the grey. Growing out the dye was painful, but once done I've never been happier with my hair. Healthy, strong, shiny, people always complement it. Had young 'uns asking me what dye i use on it even lol! Main thing I found about embracing the grey was how good it makes your skin look, as everything 'matches' as it were, it literally took years off me. I have eyelashes and eyebrows again now. Also lots of hair everywhere else.. my experiment with some random stuff off Amazon to inhibit hair growth where I don't want it has sadly been deemed a failure. Still it was a distraction for a while! Two months after radiotherapy finished and tiredness is gone, but fake boob is still somewhat swollen, but definitely settling back down, just going to take time. Saw the surgeons and they will see me in another few months with a view to a small fat transfer to hide some 'rippling' of fake boob. Should only be minor and great of them to consider it worthy of treatment - it's only visible when I've not got a bra on and doesn't bother me. End of this month i go for the pre-op meeting regarding whisking out the old ovaries, so I anticipate I shouldn't have to wait too long for that to happen now, Covid willing of course. My periods haven't returned since stopping in chemo so I'm hoping my body won't take too much of a huff to the process. @PaulineS27 pleased all is progressing well! I think that woman was just admiring how fabulous your scalp and fluff looked! No one seems to have taken blind bit of notice of my baldness, much to my dismay, they probably thought it was a choice seeing as I'm tall and tattoo'd anyway 🙂 And fancy getting it cut, I'm just going to daub mine in gel and let it grow and do it's thing I reckon. @Shine13 Sausages to your work! Make the time up? Pfft. As Pauline says the expectation seems to be you can bounce back to normal. I get the same thing from people, I wasn't ill in anyway before treatment, I was fit as a fiddle! It's all this gruelling treatment we have to recover from not the cancer. My work ring me every week and are starting to say things like 'oh well hope that's sorted soon then you can get back to normal'. Lovely that so many people are updating on progress, I love reading this thread. Take care everyone, love Pye xxx
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