Hair today, gone tomorrow · 8:11pm Jul 10th, 2018
Actually it's tomorrow. The hair's been gone for a while. I just really wanted to use that header.
It turns out I am actually a unicorn, but off-centered. Without any hair it becomes obvious that I have a very tiny horn sticking up out of the left side of my head. I am not joking. Look.
You see the lump on my head? (Off to the left... which appears to be my right, because I flipped the image.) Had that for years but I couldn't really see it until now. It's a bony lump under my skin. Totally a unicorn horn, which is bizarre considering that until getting into MLP I was on the record as hating unicorns. It'd be nice if it was centered, or if it did anything aside from require me to wear a large size in hats, but I guess you go with the horn you have, not the horn you want.
Anyway. Still not dead. Last chemo session is this Thursday, yay!
And slowly but surely I am working on Not the Hero.
Yay for the end of chemo! And more Alaran horsewords, but no longer having to poison yourself for medical reasons is always high on the list of reasons to celebrate.
Best wishes on your recovery. Fuck cancer, seriously.
You should celebrate your last session! Maybe get ice cream? Ice cream is always good. Unless chemo restricts your diet. Does it?
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Congrats on the end of the chemo! I hope you make a full recovery!
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Nah. Diabetes theoretically restricts my diet, but in practice I follow the philosophy of "you can eat any damn thing you want, just not necessarily as much of it as you wanted to." I don't get to eat a lot of ice cream because high sugar does not feel fun, but I definitely eat some.
The only restriction chemo puts on you is "what can you stand to eat" because it tends to cause nausea, but the chemical I'm on right now doesn't cause a lot of that. Mostly just a lot of bone and joint pain.
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Hmm. Still planning anything good, if not ice cream?
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Huh, might try actual medical use of pot! I've heard it's really good for chemo nausea.
Congrats on almost being done with chemo!
Awesome you are going into the home stretch on chemo! A family member went through it, it's the lag right after that is the toughest, but if this is your least session then you have this beat.
I like that at this point you are basically your own OC. What would a good name for you as a unicorn be?
Oh my goodness. How did I miss that you had cancer? How? I'm the worst fan ever.
Best of luck with recovery. You can do it!
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All Arrow O'Cheese
(pronounce it)
yay@notded :B
4898809 Ah, the descendent of an archer and a fromager.
Cosplay as a wasteland bandit.
You're doing great, Alara. I wish you good results and a speedy recovery.
Wow, that's pretty interesting! Why did you hate unicorns before getting into MLP?
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I hated horses, in general. Still kinda do, real life horses. But when I was a kid, oh my god, every goddamn little girl was gaga over horses. You couldn't go three steps without friggin' Lisa Frank unicorns all over your friends' Trapper Keepers. And being a little girl who hated horses, I decided the problem was that everyone else was stupid and everything related to horses was awful.
I am... kind of more mature than that, now. :-) And I guess I don't hate horses. I want them all to have happy, healthy lives, very far away from me.
(I had an idea once to do an MLP fic about a person with the same attitude toward horses I have. The thing that was funny was that tiny little ponies -- in my headcanon the average mare is about 3 feet tall, stallions closer to 4 feet -- wouldn't trigger the character's fear. And Discord, who doesn't look anything like a horse, wouldn't. But Celestia would. So you get someone who is okay with Discord but terrified of Celestia, which would break everyone's brain. :-))
4898971 Got it. That idea sounds pretty funny!
That is really fantastic! You're such a warrior to have endured this. You're awesome.
celebrate when you're done!
Also I can kinda feel you there, not that I hate horses but I'm on a fear area with them? I love how they look and how they live and how strong they are but the few times I was face to face with a horse that is as tall as me on the withers... Hah, I felt so anxious that it would trample me or just kick me ded.
seriously they're so big, specially from up close.
But despite my general anxiety around big and possibly deadly creatures, I love the biggest creatures the most, specially in fiction. Go figure.
Glad you're feeling better!
Cancer can eat a bag of rotten dicks!
Love your work!!