My fever finally started to go away today. It's probably going to be okay, but they still had to take a chest x-ray today to make sure I don't have pneumonia. They haven't mentioned anything about it to me yet, but I'm sure that if it DID look like I had pneumonia, they would have brought in a ton more drugs and such.
My hair is now pretty much completely gone - it went a lot faster than last time. Or maybe last time I'd just been slowly losing it over the course of 2-3 months and so I didn't notice it so suddenly. We've had to lint-roller off my pillows/bed like 3 times today and probably will need at least one more time. At one point this afternoon I was missing the hair at the front of my head and not the back so Patrick was teasing me about having the weirdest mullet ever. I got even with him by shedding everywhere and making him lint-roller it up.
The nurse overheard us talking about me losing my hair and kept telling me that I look beautiful. I'm not really worried about it, and I know that right now I look really weird. But I also know that it's temporary. Eventually my chipmunk swelling will go away and my mouth/cheeks will stop looking lopsided and that'll be fine. Hopefully it'll be soon, because it'll be easier to eat normally when that happens. My hair will (please!) grow back eventually and maybe in a more different color again.
I went walking for the first time in two days this evening and my calves were hurting the entire time like I'd exercised them TOO MUCH already. I wonder if they got a huge workout during the shivering?
Can we play the "what color will Gillian's hair be" game? I would have lost earlier because I would not have expected your hair to grow back black. All things considered, though, last time your hair grew back pretty quickly and evenly so I don't think you have much to worry about.
ReplyDeleteBoo on potential pneumonia! I'm sure you'll be out of the hospital soon. What do your counts look like?
I'm glad your fever is dissipating! Good luck with the hair!
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