i did the great chop…
Of my hair. A good 8 inches gone. I’d take a picture, but I’m also experiencing a nightmare menopausal breakout, and what I don’t need is a photographic record of that shiz. But the hair… it needed to go. Since my heart surgery, my skin bordering the incision has been hypersensitive to the point that most days I wore my hair up. Which isn’t great with menopausal/post-surgery hair thinning. So I chopped. Now I have an asymmetrical bob, chin length on one side angling to a couple inches longer on the author. And very gray. Which it won’t be for much longer. Vegan hair dye to the rescue. Pink vegan hair dye, a lovely raspberry shade called Pink Warrior by Manic Panic. Hardly my first foray into funky hair color, nor likely my last. But I can’t handle the gray anymore. This whole health experience has made me feel older than I like, so it’s time to reclaim my inside voice, that of the feral rebel chick I am.
lung stuff…
In other news, I’m free from wound care finally. My incision isn’t fully closed, with about a quarter inch to go, but the lovely hubs has done such a great job that I’ve graduated. So that closes all things heart-related, since I was released from cardiac care a while ago, as my heart surgery wasn’t because of any chronic heart issues. Just the removal of a clot and the closure of a hole I never knew I had, although I still have to have an echocardiogram down the road to double check that my heart’s still good post-hole closure. So now I’m on to Phase II of the whole process, which I argue comes with more stress. Because now we enter the testing phase to figure out why I had the pulmonary embolism to the level I did with none of the usual triggers. My initial blood and other tests while I was in the hospital yielded no answers. So that means a score of tests. On the agenda…
- another mammogram to rule out breast cancer
- an lower endoscopy to rule out stomach cancer
- a colonoscopy to rule out colon cancer
- who knows?
So looking forward to it all.
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