New Hair Do

My hair is falling out! A couple weeks before Christmas my hair started coming out in clumps.  Anytime I'd put my hand through my hair there would be a chunk of hair, and brushing my hair produced an entire brush full after each stroke.  I decided it was time to go with shorter hair so it wouldn't be so noticeable. We waited until a couple days after Christmas and then Joe shaved my head.  We didn't shave it all the way to my scalp, we left about a 1/2 inch.  It feels weird having short hair.  I've had medium to long hair most of my life.  One surprising thing once we shaved my head was that I still had quite a bit of hair.  It didn't even look like I'd lost any. I've continued to lose hair since then and it is getting quite a bit thinner. 

Otherwise we've been doing chemo every Tuesday since the end of November.  Last week when I went in my hemoglobin was too low so they didn't do chemo or my immunotherapy that we were supposed to do.  This week when I went in my hemoglobin hadn't come up enough so they decided to just do the immunotherapy and not do chemo until the next cycle in 3 weeks.  I am going to have a follow up PET/CT Scan then end of this month and then we will discuss treatment further after the doctor looks at the results of that scan.  There is a chance we won't do chemo for a while if everything looks good on the scan.  

Again we want to say thank you so much to everyone that has prayed for our family, brought us meals, sent us gifts to help with Christmas, sent cards, or money.  We really appreciate all the love we have felt from everyone! Thank you! and we love you all!