9.14.23

Hi! I don’t have a ton to update on right now. BUT something kind of exciting happened yesterday. I got my hair cut for the first time since losing it all!! I can’t tell you how good it feels to have a hairstyle!!! It did so much for me mentally/emotionally! I got tons of compliments on my growing hair, but felt so much like an unkempt little boy… I definitely don’t feel like that now! It seems to be coming in just like it was before chemo. I think there’s a little more curl to it, but I’m not expecting that to stay. I don’t notice any gray yet either so that’s a plus! 🤪🤣 The medication I’m on can cause thinning hair so we’ll see how it goes as it grows out. Maybe I’ll notice that more with longer hair?? I don’t know. At least for the moment nothing has seemed to change that way. 🙂 Just for the record, she didn’t take anything off the top, she just trimmed around my ears and cleaned up by my neck. So I still have some curls and the sun bleached hair on top and you can see how dark it’s coming in on the bottom.

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Also, I started a part time job! (Actually a couple 🤣) Here’s another answer to prayer. A little back story first, I started working for Deborah again. For those that didn’t know, I had started working for her last year, we hadn’t even finished my training when I found out I had cancer. So, I just went off the schedule. Fast forward to May and she was looking for caretakers again and I said I could help out until my reconstruction surgery. I love working for her. It doesn’t really seem like work really. Anyways, on one of my shifts she mentioned that one of her caretakers parents run one of the chiropractor places in town. That they were looking for someone for the front desk and every time the two of them talked about it she thought of me. So she mentioned it to me. I said yeah, that’s something I would be interested in and planned to talk to the caretaker the following week when we were training together. I figured I’d ask a little more about it and see what her parents were looking for. Well, guess what! That afternoon I had a message from one of the owners that said her daughter worked for Deb and mentioned I might be interested in a job. If I was to come on down and we could chat. So that’s what I did. And here we are, I got a job from a place I didn’t know was hiring and didn’t apply for! She knows that we homeschool and that’s not a problem with the scheduling. It really is the perfect job for me. Once I’m all trained in it will be 2-3 days a week starting at 2:30ish. No weekends or holidays. And they don’t offer insurance, which I know sounds like a bad thing, but Aaron’s insurance would penalize us if I got a job that offered insurance and I chose not to use that. (I get it, I’m not knocking them. It was just one of the things I had to watch for in looking for a part time job.)