Some of you have noticed (and commentend on) my "new" avatar.
First of I want to say: Thank you for the compliments & for being concerned about my health. But there really is no need for the 2nd.
This pic (along with some others) was taken about 3 years ago. I just like to repost it this time of year (breast cancer awareness).
I'll get it up front that I
did not have breast cancer. I can't relate to all the sickness these womena go though. I lost my hair after my gastric bypass and the fact that I did not take my supplement and vitamins as I should have. However it was ironic that my MIL was going through a mastectomy and chemo at the same time - so we lost our hair together. My husband, his Dad, and his brothers all shaved their heads bald, too to keep up the look.
(We have such good men in our family!)
I was feeling particularly low and "UN-feminine" one day without my hair (because it had been down to my waist) - so I decided to go to Glamour shots and get some glammed up photos made. I felt like a princess after this. They did my makeup and made it seem like a real phot-shoot. They made me feel beautiful again. When I saw my pics I was like "ohhhh, wow! That's me?"
So bagan my journey with scarves, hats, jewelry, makeup, getting my nails done on a regular basis - al the really girly stuff. My MIL and I went on a retreat for women going through breast cancer - they could bring 1 guest, I was the guest. We were pampered like royalty: pediures, manicures, massages, maekup lessons, journaling, etc. The same things that I had been learning they were teaching these women to do.
So every year now I put up my bald pictures in October to encourage women with breast cancer and other diseases. It doesn't matter what you
look like - you will always be femnine. You are a woman - there is no other way for you to be! Whether you have hair, breasts (both, 1 or neither), stretch marks, are overweight, whatever - you are WOMAN!
