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Days of Our Lives...ok...I admit it, I am a soap junkie. I don't watch all soaps, only one in fact-Days...but I can pretty much tell you all the characters regardless. That is because for 8 months one year when I was 20 I worked at a Tan Spa as a receptionist. It was a tiny hole in the wall with three beds run by a woman who had won part of her husbands hair salon in the divorce settlement and walled it off and opened a tan "spa"! Soooo...I spent most of my days watching TV. And I learned about all the soaps and the story lines have not changed really...maybe the next generation..but they were all kids back then so I know who they are too....

Anyway, I still watch Days if I am home at 2pm(which was all summer btw). I may do other things while it is on, but none-the-less it is still on. And so I have followed it for a long time and one of the characters has recently been diagnosed with cancer! Lung cancer, which is interesting, but I have a feeling that's because they didn't want to do the typical cancers since the character is a woman, but she was diagnosed in Nov...had a "round" of chemo and they said she was much better. I was like .....ok..is just the soap fast forwarding things...but then more tests..ect..it had spread, she needs a transplant.

Ok..soooo my point is...(sorry but the background was necessary) she said today as she was awaiting more results that all she wanted this year was to be around for one more Christmas........profound for a soap character. At least it was in how it resonated with me.

I feel lately like I have been waking up from a dream that was cancer. This summer..everything that went with it, is still going with it. But...I am starting to feel more like the old me. And yes I do think the hair and eyebrows/lashes has a lot to do with it. I can't imagine what the boobs will do-lol. But its more than that. I just feel like the old me...I think I had been numb..I don't know...anyway..I too am happy to be around this Christmas. For the briefest of times I feared that may not be the case in the beginning, and even now I know it could come back or I could walk outside and get hit by a crazy teenager speeding home after school...and so I am grateful every day to still be around.

Hope everyone is staying warm.

Blog ya later-
K