Sunday, September 11, 2011

Post chemo hair is DIFFERENT! + dog updates

I had no idea how much time being bald was saving me!!! Now I have enough hair to require "fixing" in some way, no more "wash and wear" for me. So I have been asking around as to products various women use to keep their short hair "spikey" or at least not flat on their heads. I have about an inch of hair all over, no area shorter or longer. And this hair is a as soft and fine as bunny fur. I wish I could say that it is thicker and darker than my pre-chemo hair............but that is not the case.

One friend who always looks so good with her hair spiked told me she uses a product called "Hard Up" and purchases it at the beauty salon. I can deal with a product called Hard Up. Another recommended product is "Gorilla Snot"............ I don't know about this........... Can you see me trying to explain a liquid product called Gorilla Snot to the German version of TSA? How is Gorilla Snot translated in German? Or in Spanish, for that matter? How long would it take to get through the airport!!!! I think I need to find a more conventionally named product for travel.

Dog Update: First, Geneva finally got a clean report on her ear infections. She has had am & pm pills that had to be taken with a meal, not just snack. So I was making kibble omelets for both of them every morning. What happy doggies!!! That is history now!!! We still give them some leftovers with kibble after dinner but nothing special like their own omelets

Second, we have a fire hydrant being "set" in a former flower bed in the back yard. I have always wanted a fire hydrant for my boy dogs and finally found one at a TV production  moving sale. What fun.....sort of. The thing weighs 300# so it isn't just a simple project. 1st I had to play the old lady card to get the seller to have his staff to hoist it into the Jeep. Then I worried about having such a weight vaulting back there........What if I had to do a nose-dive sudden stop? The hydrant would be a missile headed for our backs! And a jack-rabbit start could have the hydrant out the tail gate and rolling under the pickup truck behind me! Would USAA understand that I had to haul this hydrant around for a week until the landscape crew came to start the Dog Bano project??? O, dear. Well, I drove VERY safely until the crew relieved me of the hydrant passenger. The young men in the lawn crew were really laughing about all the work, sweat and $$$ going into a Dog Bano!!! Old people are so weird!!!