and her husband at MD Anderson last week. She recognized me from my photo here. They were so nice. Such a lovely surprise. It was great to see someone in person from the forum.
That was a nice surprise! I guess I'll have to add a photo to my profile, but in the meantime your experience nudged me to include where I'm being treated to the "about me" page.
It was so wonderful to spot you! Thankfully your cute eyeglasses were what I noticed first! You were the first to reach out and welcome me to this site, and I appreciate it. I wish I could figure out how to put a photo up - we could all play Where's Waldo in this very small world!
Pictures are funny things. For the first six months I was on this site, I used one of my mother's from the 1950's. She died 7 weeks before I was diagnosed so it seemed a nice gesture but in retrospect it was so I could stay at a remove from my reality. After my recurrence - 5 months after surgery - I realized I was in this for the long haul and wanted my friends to know who I really was. At that point I was just coming back from chemo and had a little hair, so my appearance was really fluid (hair grew quickly). As a compromise I posted a picture taken at work the month before I was diagnosed, even if it felt like a bit of false advertising. Now I need to do a new one, because I don't look like that anymore, either. I always appreciated how Editgrl/Chris left both her pictures on her About Me page, and I will do that too. I looked gawd-awful during chemo - who doesn't? - and want anyone going through it to know that this, too, will pass (my mother's favorite saying).
Joined: Jan 2018
Small World...
That was a nice surprise! I guess I'll have to add a photo to my profile, but in the meantime your experience nudged me to include where I'm being treated to the "about me" page.
Joined: Mar 2013
I have met a few of the
I have met a few of the ladies on this page and it is always a nice surprise to put the screen name and person to do.
Joined: Feb 2018
Fun!
It was so wonderful to spot you! Thankfully your cute eyeglasses were what I noticed first! You were the first to reach out and welcome me to this site, and I appreciate it. I wish I could figure out how to put a photo up - we could all play Where's Waldo in this very small world!
Joined: Nov 2016
Pictures are funny
Pictures are funny things. For the first six months I was on this site, I used one of my mother's from the 1950's. She died 7 weeks before I was diagnosed so it seemed a nice gesture but in retrospect it was so I could stay at a remove from my reality. After my recurrence - 5 months after surgery - I realized I was in this for the long haul and wanted my friends to know who I really was. At that point I was just coming back from chemo and had a little hair, so my appearance was really fluid (hair grew quickly). As a compromise I posted a picture taken at work the month before I was diagnosed, even if it felt like a bit of false advertising. Now I need to do a new one, because I don't look like that anymore, either. I always appreciated how Editgrl/Chris left both her pictures on her About Me page, and I will do that too. I looked gawd-awful during chemo - who doesn't? - and want anyone going through it to know that this, too, will pass (my mother's favorite saying).