Attitude Is Everything

 

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2009

Attitude is Everything

I was busy getting a package ready to send tomorrow to my missionary son Blake. Because of the chemo so often, I only have a couple of days to shop and get things done. Today I was gone from 11:30 am until 10:00 pm, which is a super long day. When I took off my head wrap, my head was aching. The loss of hair is weird. Hair Falling out makes your head hurt, Eric rubbed it for me, and it seemed to help.
I noticed by my front door was an envelope that had my name on it. I opened it, and this is what it was.....a poem from another VILLAIN survivor. It made me actually laugh out loud.

ATTITUDE

There once was a woman who
woke up one morning, looked in
the mirror, and noticed she had
only three hairs on her head.
"Well," she said, "I think I'll
braid my hair today."
So she did.
And she had a wonderful day.

The next day she woke up, looked
in the mirror and saw that she
had only two hairs on her head.
"Hmm," she said, "I think I'll part
my hair down the middle today."
So she did
and she had a Grand Day.

The next day she woke up, looked
in the mirror, and noticed that
she had only one hair on her head,
"Well," she said, "today I'm
going to wear my hair
in a ponytail."
And so she did
And she had a fun, fun day.

The next day she woke up
looked in the mirror, and
noticed that there wasn't a
single hair on her head.
"Yeah," she exclaimed
"I don't have to fix my hair today."

Ok, do you love it? This is my life and the life of every VILLAIN patient I have met. I have said it before; I repeat it; ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING. Every doctor I see tells me there is a woman who has a lower stage VILLAIN than I do who die because they give up. I will not give up. This is a battle, not fun, not short, not glorious but a war I will fight and win because I have the Lord on my side, and I know I can do it. Thank you, Vicki, for taking the time to bring this to my home and give me some comic relief on a night when I needed it.