It Is About the Hair!

I have gone 11 weeks without a pedicure.  On this cancer journey you have been WARNED you are very susceptible to infection during chemo therapy. But I am desperate, my blood counts have always been good. It is right before a treatment , I am going! I am going to the mall nail spa.

I walk in pick my color, (this is not my first rodeo.) I choose a red to go with my new red lipstick. I am trying to be on the cutting edge of fashion.  If and when I start having the sick look I want to be at least well manicured. Never wearing pajama’s in public it screams  I have given up on life, whether you have an illness or not.

I get cozy in the massaging pedicure chair. The water was a little too hot at first then I got use to it and enjoyed it. I did not even have to tell him not to cut my cuticles. I believe the  scarf told him that might not be a good idea. Matter of fact we did not say much at all.  All went well with the pedicure, he even let me stay a while longer in the chair while my pigs were drying.  I paid and tipped him. I then get moved over to the nail dryer. While I am there I get my tips worth. He starts rubbing my shoulders while my toes are drying. Then in his broken English he asks “Why no hare” I stop and think, I have to think before I speak. I say “ I am having some treatments” He asks “ concer”  I say yes “ I have breast cancer”  He then informs me that there is fake hare. I say;"Yes I know I have seven wigs now." I pull out my phone and show him my photo with all my wigs (Disguise’s of Patient Rachel Newhart ) Then he see’s on my phone pictures of Sam and Barbie. He then says hare make you look ten year younger! And nobody know U doing treatment. Then I felt compelled to lie. I told him I had worn a wig all day at work and I just needed a break, It gets uncomfortable.

See it is about the hair.  I should have said I believe in the power of thoughts and prayer I want to make it easy for people too spot me out. If they don’t say a little prayer for me at least the thought “ She would look ten years younger with some Fake Hare”