Breast Cancer - recovery 6 surgeries & loosing the plot in a funny way

I thought I would share something to make you laugh today. After surgery you should rest and relax, get those drugs out of your system and sleep.(also drink champagne) Well, this is easy as really that's how you feel, but saying that after 3 days in bed it is time to get up and get your priorites happening. First sponge bath, as you must not get those bandages wet. then clean jama's then we must do the hair and make up. What I have decided for me is every morning, I need hair done, mascara and lipstick even if I am ill. Funny, I can't dump this habit, but when you look good you feel so much better. That's what I have in my head anyway. It works for me. Now for the funny part, as my routine is probably the same for some woman. Sometimes I wish I was not a hair and makeup, dress up girl...lol
No undies on as need to rest those arms and not have the pressure of pulling them up. For 1 week I walked everyday in my jama's. As I am at Pott's Point and the fashion can be ever so crazy and ever so weird, I wore black silk jama's with a coat and ugg boots (I know the vision is appauling). But guess what no one knew and to top it off the shops I go to said, you look well and good how are you? I did not say do you like my PJ's but secrets are fun and even my japanese Pj bottom's red and black still people did not know...

If you knew me, I normally would not be caught dead or around the house like this ever. I am always dressed and well grommed first thing. Of course it was for just a week but now I can say I shopped in my PJ's in my recovery, hey with make up and hair done though.....

In a way, crazy fashion helps us cancer patients hide the facts...

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