Beauty and the bitch

Last week before my next chemo. The highlight of this week was a makeup course for women with cancer. I was expecting this for months! The timing was perfect…my eyebrows are getting thinner and my eyelashes are waving goodbye! Luckily it’s happening very slowly…for now.
Got a lot of products (for free!) and advice and above that met women my age also fighting breast cancer. We had a chat in the end. In some way it felt so comforting hearing lots of my thoughts, fears and reactions coming from someone else’s mouth! I’ve been sceptical about joining groups or attending meetings for patients. I was mostly scared that I would meet people suffering…and that would scare me off. But it wasn’t like that. And the day did pay off!

The funny thing about makeup, beauty
treatments etc, is that it’s never been my thing. I had a makeup session a few months before I found out I had cancer, for the first time in my life. I probably did one third of it later on. And now it felt so uplifting and fun all of a sudden!

I feel less bitchy than last week. Exercising helps. My body allowed adding more exercises to the program and it went well. Oh and I started group training this week (with co-patients)! I also attended a half-day course (work-related), surprised I could follow the whole discussion.

A bit tired but satisfied with how the week went. I’ll try to take it easy during the weekend and prepare for ‘bomb’ number four!

Lesson learned: your hair and eyebrows do not define you. But even if you are going through hell, may as well look your best!