Embrace your baldness

Embrace Your Baldness
It's taken me a while to get used to being bald. I was really self-conscious at the beginning, but about a month ago I freed myself from anxiety during a yoga class. I always wear a hat -- even at home -- primarily because my head gets cold. As mentioned earlier, I even sleep with a ski cap on. But sometimes when I get a hot flash, I have to remove the hat as my head begins to sweat.

Well, I wear a baseball cap when I work out. I started taking yoga at the beginning of the year and one day during class my cap fell off while lying down. My head was sweating at that point, so I just left the cap off. When we sat up, I left the cap on the ground. I looked around and realized that everyone was continuing their yoga and could care less about my bald head. At that point, I just let go of my self-consciousness. "Embrace your baldness, Jean!!"

One day, though, I was walking out of the shower at the gym and as I past a woman, her head whipped around and she had a shocked look on her face. I'm sure she was thinking "there's a bald guy in the women's locker room!!" She got over it.

Check up with my oncologist
I had my regular check up yesterday and everything is going well. All of my lab tests are good but my hemaglobin has been decreasing with each chemo session, so my oncologist put me on weekly shots of Procrit. It's typical procedure.

He said I'm doing well and that I "look good on paper". Yeah, except for that small cancer thing, I'm healthy.... ;-)

Academy Awards
My favorite night of TV was Sunday. Although the show was really long, I thought it was a pretty good show. They needed more time for Ellen Degeneres to do her thing and less time on the minor award categories. Do we really need to see the winner for Best Animated Short Filmed on a Tuesday from a Foreign Country with Less than 1 Million People? Snore.... Get to the good stuff.

I loved Forest Whitaker's acceptance speech and am glad that Martin Scorese has finally won an Oscar. I saw all of the Best Picture nominees and agree that The Departed was the best. Apparently the movie studio is trying to put together a sequel to The Departed, but Mark Wahlberg and Alec Baldwin are the only characters left alive at the end of the movie. The sequel could be a very short film.