Friday Finds & Check-ins, Volume #725
Share your recent beauty purchases or rediscovered favorites in your stash (for those on low/no-buys!), chit chat about weekend plans, and learn a little more about each other!
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Recent Purchases/Rediscoveries: I have some new MAC lipsticks to swatch, along with Tom Ford’s winter collection…
Weekend plans: I need to photograph/swatch, but I haven’t had the motivation! I’m sure part of it is just being busier/more tired between more on-site volunteering at the rescue along with taking care of my newest foster, which is an orphaned pup. I drove 120 miles round-trip last Friday to pick her up, as she was only a week old and had serious injuries. She is doing well so far, and she has recovered tremendously from her injuries! Mittens is still quite young, though, so fingers crossed she continues to do well.
Any big plans for the remainder of the year? Nope!
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Recent Purchases: I ordered four CoverGirl mascaras to try them out (Lash Blast Cleantopia Ultramarine, Exhibitionist, Exhibitionist Stretch and Strengthen, and Simply Ageless Plumping). I also bought two Nest travel sprays (Black Tulip and Wisteria Blue), and a vintage flacon of Bal a Versailles parfum in the original brocade and satin packaging. So elegant!
Weekend Plans: Since I never got around to cleaning up my computer last weekend, that’s my main goal for this weekend.
Any big plans for the remainder of the year? Not yet!
I hope that at least one of your new mascaras works out – the Simply Ageless Plumping sounds like a good one.
I hope you have had a decent working week – not too much dramas and you get to do a bit of relaxing this weekend as well.
I’ve been using CoverGirl mascara for many years and thought it was time to switch it up a bit. I have short, sparse lashes, and did some research on all of these formulas, so maybe they’ll all be good! I’m excited to try the Ultramarine formula. Navy blue eyeliner makes my green eyes greener, so I’m hoping this has the same effect. And I didn’t really have a bad week at work, for a change!
Mittens is absolute perfection! Thank you for fostering her. I hope the rest of her life is filled with kindness and unconditional love.
Got the new Melt Nightmare Before Christmas palette, and otherwise decluttered a few items in my steadily decreasing stash.
No weekend plans, except to prep the cat houses for my outside community cats that I take care of. It’s still mild here in NY so a good time to refresh and change the straw bedding.
What a wonderful, caring thing for you to do -take care of outdoor cats that have been abandoned and lost. All domesticated animals need someone kind to treat them well and provide shelter for them. What a lovely person you must be.
Thank you Christina for being there for these stray and/or feral cats in your neighborhood by giving them warm refuge from the snow and brutal weather. 🐈🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛
I would love to do something similar here because of the infernal heat in summer. Unfortunately, my apartment complex FORBIDS helping them in any way, even forbidding provision of water or food!
I don’t know what the back story is of Mittens and I probably don’t want to know. She’s so, so tiny and it’s so sad that she’s had a really rough start to her life but she’s now in very good, loving, caring hands!
Recent purchases: a full sized bottle of that Kerastase Elixir (I was sold after ONE use of the points perk bottles I got). Rediscoveries: the Pat McGrath 6 pan palette I have (Bronze Seduction? Something like that).
Weekend plans: it’s Thanksgiving in Canada so I’m doing a lot of prepping for our meal on Monday (it started with 6 people and keeps growing; I’m glad I got a bigger turkey than I thought I’d need). I want to go to the gym tomorrow and do the last of the grocery shopping.
Big plans for the rest of the year: JAPAN!!!! We leave in about a week and a half.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner Mariella – I have no doubt that your guest list is growing – they have probably heard what a great cook you are!
I think it’s a perfect kind of celebration – to remind ourselves of what to give thanks for – no gift is needed but the one of being present at the dinner table, with friends and family.
Is it the 6 pan Bronze Ambition you have or the 12 pan Bronze Seduction? I know I get really confused with the variations on the names of Pat’s palettes. Do you like it, anyway?
So exciting that your trip to Japan is getting nearer and nearer. It’s a beautiful country and I hope your son and DIL will be able to show you around.
Friends and I often comment about how Thanksgiving is the best of Christmas without all the expense and, even worse, the gift-buying stress involved!
Yes, it’s the 6 pan one I have (I think you’ve got the similar one that is “Platinum”, if I’ve got that name right). I do like it very much but I find there’s a lot of overlap with some of the shades – 3 very similar gold shades in such a small palette, is a lot.
I just learned recently that leggings – which I basically live in – aren’t considered appropriate in Japan unless covered by cut off shorts (at my age, I don’t even own a pair) or a mini skirt, dress, etc. Apparently, the Japanese consider leggings to be very like panty-hose so the upper portion should be covered. I’ve got a few longer tops and 2 t-shirt dresses I can wear over them but I’m so glad I finished my 2nd pair of what I now call “Japants” – the culottes I’d been sewing – as they’ll be something easy to wear and appropriate for almost everywhere. Alas, they don’t have pockets (all my leggings and crops have very handy pockets on the legs for my phone). And as with the weather here, it’s unseasonably warm in Japan too so unless it really cools off, I have to rethink everything I’ve set aside to pack! I thought the weather would be cooler but it seems I may have thought wrong!
Yes I do have the Sublime Platinum Bronze – which is very cool toned and probably would have suited you better – it has a lot of those cool toned taupey shades that I know you love.
The culture of Japan is very, very different to ours and culottes would be the way to go. It can get very humid there too. All the signs there are in Japanese and none are in English – only some of the younger generation speak English, and I know this because my best friend and her husband were recently there and got lost…they found it very hard to find someone who could help them.
It’s so hard to pack when the weather is all over the place and not sticking to its season.
By the way, I have finished all of the Deborah Crosbie books available to me from the library and I really enjoyed them.
I’m so glad about the books. I’ve actually learned interesting bits of history, like about the canal boats and their role in transporting goods before the railway… (I think that was in the book Water Like a Stone. about a family living on a long/canal boat).
My daughter in law’s mom was visiting them in the spring. S is Japanese (though born here and at a time when assimilation was the focus and there was still strong anti Japanese sentiment), so S doesn’t speak Japanese. She ended up in a bit of a pickle getting to the airport to fly home – a big misunderstanding with a cab driver who spoke no English (or perhaps pretended he didn’t). My son speaks fairly well and I think daughter in law does now too (she did a year of highschool in Japan but freely admits that my son speaks better than she does though I think she’s improved a LOT since moving – she’s been taking courses and needs some basic Japanese for her job). But that’s my big worry too – getting lost and having no one who can understand us or whom we can understand. Google Translate, maybe?
Genevieve, I forgot to mention that I got not just one but TWO Kate Morton audiobooks (Homecoming and The Secret Keeper) from Audible. I’ve not listened to either yet – I’m saving Homecoming for Japan!
This photo of Mittens is absolutely heart-melting 🥹
There is something so soul satisfying and soothing when it comes to animal rescue. Especially of the most vulnerable: the sick, the injured, the orphans, the abandoned. I think that what you are doing is for Mittens is absolutely wonderful! Makes me remember just how much work it took to win over and earn the trust of my once VERY feral, DUMPED (🤬) kitty Penelope, and her becoming the sweetest love bug! So rewarding!🪷🐶🪷
Purchases/rediscoveries: Well, I STILL haven’t gotten my tush over to Arrowhead mall to the Sephora there to get shade retested, since I haven’t been outside as much.
Weekend plans: Zoom meeting tomorrow morning…and maybe laundry? There’s now a literal MOUNTAIN on my tall dresser and in my walk-in closet on the floor!
Any big plans for this year? IDK? The trial dates for my CSA lawsuit keeps getting pushed off further than any of us could have imagined. I am so tired. So emotionally spent. They’re talking about trials taking place winter of 24-25.
Sad to read Nancy that your lawsuit dates keep changing and mucking you around – this is just a delaying tactic to put you all offside. Stay strong to bring those accountable to justice. That’s what this is about. Keep the faith on this one Nancy – you owe to yourself.
One a happier note, I hope you’ve felt strong enough to tackle the laundry and take a walk outside. I hope your weather is cooling down somewhat. We’ve just returned to winter, but there are some sunnier days in our outlook.
Us litigants all pretty much believe that they’re hoping that the handful who have terminal illness will die off and that some of the rest will give up due to the constant reliving of the traumatic events suffered compounded by the 3 years of bringing our cases to justice. This is not a class action suit, but each case will be decided on an individual basis, but before the same Judge and jury.
As far as my getting out and taking care of some business around here: nothing. Last night, I was kept awake by my bum knee hurting tremendously. Tylenol and Tiger Balm didn’t even relieve it, so at nearly 5 a.m., I took something more potent. Woke up around 2 p.m. to 2 voraciously hangry house-panthers just staring at me(weird how they NEVER do what every single cat I had previously does by becoming one very pesky or very loud “alarm clock”!)
OMG – how could anyone abandon such a gorgeous little puppy like her? What kind of wounds did she have Christine? Well, she came up trumps finding you and Shaun to look after her. Such a little baby. A terrible start to life she has had, but now Mittens is in a safe and loving home.
Recent Purchases: Shiseido’s Synchro Skin foundation in Rose 2 – I was initally unsure if this shade would work, but it does and it is heavenly to use. I was so lucky that after trying it in an actual store, I found it online at my favourite Aus retailer for only S20 – so I snatched it up quickly. My only regret now is that I didn’t buy two more bottles!
Redsicoveries: Fenty’s Freckled Fiesta lipstick, Guerlain’s Les Gris
Weekend Plans: A fairly quiet one for the rest of the weekend. On Friday I met up with a whole bunch of teacher colleagues that I use to work with and we just worked so harmoniously together at the primary school. All of our children were of a similar age and we all supported each other through the ups and downs of parenting. So it was wonderful to see them and we are all doing well.
Both my eldest son and husband are watching one of the major motor car races held in Aus – the Bathurst 1000 over this weekend, so it will be a quiet one for me for a change.
Big Plans for the Remainder of the Year – Yep, I hope so! It will be my birthday in November for one and I can’t believe this, but I am already looking for Christmas presents for our grandchildren.
She had a big chunk missing out of her arm, and then there was an abscess on her neck/back that seemed to be from another similar kind of wound!
Poor little Mittens – it seems she was attacked by another animal and neglected badly. Thank goodness you were able to go and rescue her. It would have been quite distressing for you to see her in such a state. She is certainly looking a lot better now.
I’m wondering if those were caused by another animal, Christine? Then, perhaps the mother dog took her other pups away from the danger, but didn’t/couldn’t come back to this little one? I hate the thought of anything else!
Yes, the best guess is that it was by another animal, maybe carried away by an animal and then found by a human. She seemed to have a great suckle and good body condition, so she didn’t seem like a runt (where mom might cull her).
Thank goodness for that compassionate person who found Mittens and proceeded to get her help! Sometimes, things seem to come together just right and with perfect timing. Other than the bite wounds, she sure does look robust and healthy!
So you like the Shiseido Synchro Skin? i have been seeing a lot on social media about the new Shiseido foundation and have thought to give it a try. Iuse to have Synchro Skin in a cushion but I don’t think they make it anymore or maybe it is only available in Japan. I am still liking the Chanel concoction that I made but it involves three very expensive foundations to make!! Hardly something I want to do forever. I have a lot of new to me foundations that I like a lot but none that I love, love, love. I will keep hunting though!
Haul: I typed my whole response and then the computer gremlins got in and deleted it. So, hopefully this won’t post if the other one actually did, which I doubt. I came back from Seattle last night. The drive is getting harder and harder as I get older. I can handle the mental alertness but my back is bent like a pretzel when I get out of the car and it takes awhile to actually stand all the way up.
At Nordstrom’s: I purchased the Chanel Complexion Touch in B10, (I’ve used it and like it. I am mixing it with the Water Fresh Tint and one drop of the No1 de Chanel and it is the perfect color and coverage for me), Chanel Rouge Allure Lipstick in shade 199 Inatendu which is a pinky nude, Les Ombres Eyeshadow palette in Light. I also swatched all of the fall/winter palettes. I thought I would be most interested in the Parure Cristal but was surprised to be attracted to the Parure Baroque. That green color is gorgeous so while they were out in the store, I ordered it and it is being shipped to me. Thank you so much to the young lady at the Chanel counter for being so patient and helpful. I looked at the Chantecaille Single Shadow in Rhinoceros, which I thought I would really love, but it was so full of chunky glitter that just from swatching on my arm I had glitter everywhere. I ended up purchasing the matte shade, Mushroom. I also saw that Byredo has a makeup line which I had not known so I quickly bought a lipstick in the shade Tokyo Rose. When I go back I plan to look at more of their makeup items. My daughter and I then smelled, sprayed and sampled every perfume in the place. I was giving her my perfume wish list and was doing the same for me.
At Sephora: I purchased two more of the Haus Labs Highlighter/blushes in shade Pink Amethyst for me and Raw Amber for my daughter’s AC. I purchased a new, (new to me), Matte Revolution lipstick in the shade M.I.KISS. It is a lovely pink/berry/nude shade. I got samples of the Rose Inc Serum Foundation suggested by kjh but I haven’t had a chance to try it yet. I also got a few samples of some skincare items and bought the full size of the Dr. Dennis Gross C, E Ferulic Eye Serum. I use to use it all the time and stopped when I stopped skincare and makeup. I had asked Nancy if she was still using it and she is so I bought it. I can tell it has been reformulated as it is a bit thicker which I personally like. It also has a bit more slip to it so a little goes a long way which is great when you are paying $70 for an eye cream. And finally at Sephora, I purchased a mini trial set by Rare Beauty that includes two of the Pinch Blushes and Two matching highlighters which I will also use in my daughter’s AC.
Mercari: I did do a little retail shopping on the secondary sales site and picked up a brand new Chanel quad in the shade Codes Elegantes which includes a brown, copper color story which is perfect for my daughter. I got it for her AC also. I purchased the Florasis Highlighter in the shade Amber for her AC also. The Codes Eleganes was still sealed in its plastic wrap from the store as was the Florasis. For myself I bought the Dior Eye Shadow quint in Golden Snow which was a release from a few seasons ago. I also picked up the quint Birds of a Feather for myself from Poshmark. It too was still sealed in its plastic wrapper.
Weekend Plans: Not much. I am going to try and rest up from my trip and also hope to navigate the weekend as I have an abscessed tooth and can’t get into the dentist until next week and he is an hour away so it will likely be a long and painful weekend.
Remainder of the year plans: The first weekend in November, my daughter and I are going to Denver to see Queen with Adam Lambert. I got to see them just before the pandemic and was so thrilled to see them again. My daughter has never seen them and was working a new job when they were in the states last. i told her that if they ever came again, I would take her. Brian May had a heart attack during the pandemic and had a very long recovery so I wasn’t sure they would ever tour again. Fingers crossed that he remains well and has many years left to tour. They are coming to Los Angeles and San Francisco but not to the Pacific Northwest, at least they haven’t released any dates there yet, so we decided to see them in Denver as my daughter has never been there before. Following Thanksgiving I am going to Tennessee to see my best friend. We have not been close for some time given our different opinions about politics. I want to see her one last time and then likely will not ever see her again. Her and her husband moved from Denver to Tennessee to get out of a too liberal state. After that, it will be the new year and I will be smack in the middle of winter! I believe that I am going to put my house on the market in the spring and hopefully sell easily. My daughter is really struggling financially and she wants to go back to school but I am unable to finance it again. I am still paying off huge student loan debt from her first degree. I contacted her father who has not given a penny to help since she turned 18 and before that didn’t really help either. Anyway, he just got remarried and says he can’t help her so I am going to sell my house and hope that I can make enough out of it to finance her going back to school. I feel like I owe her as I should have been firmer with her when she changed her major the second year of college. I knew it was a mistake but she was so passionate about it that I gave way and now she isn’t able to find work in that field and has been working as a front office assistant in an orthodontists office. Needless to say, it isn’t her dream job and barely pays enough for her to live pay check to pay check. I have been supplementing her each month and have just forked over a small fortune to get her car repaired, the second time this year! I won’t be around to see her full fill her life’s dreams so if I can help make it happen then that is what I want to do.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.
M.I. Kiss that used to be Bond Girl is one of my favourite every day lipsticks. For me it works with everything I generally use for the rest of my makeup. I’ve almost finished mine, and that is a rare ting.
What a wonderful mother you are, Deborah! I’m sure your daughter knows how fortunate she is to have you.
I hope she’ll be able to go back to studying and then to find a dream job.
Thank you Helene. Like all mother’s she is my world. There isn’t anything we wouldn’t do for our children. Besides the overwhelming love I feel for her, I also harbor some guilt regarding the father I gave her and his lack of participation in her life. Like a lot of girls, having a good father figure is so important and he just hasn’t been there for her. I am sure he thinks he has been but truly, he has not. She says she isn’t hurt by his selfishness but I know that she is. He has two step daughters and treats them better than his two biological daughters. His older daughter, from before our marriage, hides her hurt under a biting and sarcastic wit. My daughter is more of an introvert and just suffers in silence. I want to leave her with a way to feel good about herself and a way to craft her own life without me. I had her so late in life and always knew that I wouldn’t be around until she was well settled and established. During my cancer treatment, she was five. I thought then that I might not survive even to see her finish grade school. I was worried that if I died, my ex husband would take her to live back east and she would never see my family, which was the only family she knew. My father promised me that he would spend every last penny he had to keep her from going back east. Luckily, that didn’t have to happen. My ex husband had an affair while I was going through my 3 surgeries and chemotherapy. Although my daughter was only 5 she was aware what was happening because the girlfriend would call the house and leave messages on the phone. Anyway, that is all in the past and I have an opportunity to help her by selling my house and getting her back into school. She will continue to work at least part time and contribute what she can. She wants to do something with computers and like most young people these days, she is quite good with them. My nephew is amazing and has offered to help her. He can hack anything, builds computers from the ground up and teaches IT at school. She just needs to decide what area she wants to go into. With the popularity of AI and all it means for the future, she should think about something like that. I don’t know enough to direct her. Anyway, I hope things are going okay with you and that you are feeling okay or as good as one can given the circumstances.
I wish my mother was just a tiny little bit like you. She’s not. She’s very selfish, something I desperately try not to be. She had a few moments when I was growing up, but there are 365 days a year, being nice one of those days, and being a complete egoistical person the rest of the days isn’t good.
I grew up with her parents, my grandparents and they were lovely, generous, kind, supportive. I loved them so much and miss them every day.
My mother is in her 80s now and finally managed to say she loves me, I don’t think she does, I think she thought it was appropriate to say it as I have this stupid cancer.
Oh. well, sorry for the rant.
To make this a bit makeup related, I used MAC Rebel yesterday, an old time favourite that makes me feel a lot better. The power of makeup!
I am so sorry for your relationship with your mother. There is a line at the end of a completely sappy movie, Hope Floats, where the young character says that, “Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.” I believe that wholeheartedly.
I think that sounds true.
It took me many years before I decided trying to make her, my mother like me and talk to me, was just stupid, so I gave up.
What still makes me so mad is her completely ignoring my son for years, it’s as if he didn’t even exist in her world. She stopped asking about him, phoning him on his birthday or sending a birthday card, or one for Christmas after my grandmother passed away in 2007. After that my mother didn’t once ask about him, not once. This is something I simply can’t find any excuse or understanding for.
I guess families can be a blessing, but they, or parts of them can be a curse.
Say hi to your daughter from me, and let her know, as if she doesn’t already, know what a wonderful mother she has.
I wouldn’t be motivated if I had that adorable ball of fur to take care of neither, what a little sweetheart!
Recent Purchases/Rediscoveries: Nothing on both fronts.
Weekend plans: It’s Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday, I spent 6 hrs prepping things today, a little more to do tomorrow for our family of 14 plus 3 dogs who will be arriving at 3pm on Sunday. It will be nice enough to eat on the deck this year. Our colder weather moved on to the eastern side of Canada.
Any big plans for the remainder of the year? My son got engaged this summer so Wedding plans are being worked on, possibly a Spring Wedding.
Brenda, I never realized you’re another “Janie Canuck”! And your cooler weather is moving here, which I appreciate! I’ve also pre-prepped a LOT of stuff but we’re celebrating on Monday because hubs is working Sunday (his “retirement” job – it’s cutting into some family time a bit more than I like). The big stress for me is always “will the turkey be defrosted enough or will it have defrosted too much….getting that timing right always has me fretting. I think I should cook turkey more often (though it’s my husband’s favourite) just so I can learn to have confidence in the defrost timing!
Yes I’m a Canadian too! Lucky us. I’ll take your warmer weather I’m dreading winter. I’m hoping it won’t be a bad one. We had a problem finding turkeys this year, I had to buy a fresh one, so no trying to get it defrosted in time. It always seems to take longer to defrost than you think, half the time we’re pulling out the frozen gizards with an ice pick lol. Enjoy your Thanksgiving Mariella.
Mention of the cold and the turkey crisis has me thinking you’re out west! I saw the news the other day about the turkey recall and panicked til I saw it was a brand we don’t have here in Ontario and that it was in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. But I couldn’t help thinking of all those people who were left scrambling to find a replacement turkey.
Weather everywhere seems to be getting terrifyingly extreme – floods in India recently, forest fires in so many places, extreme heat, hurricanes and tornados like never before….
Yes Alberta it is, we had terrible smoke from the fires this summer, I feel for all the people in B.C. that were displaced, the weather extremes are very unsettling to say the least. Yes there was a recall of Sunrise Turkeys, I felt very bad for all the people that had to scramble to find a replacement.
Some in BC are only how getting back to their homes. Can you imagine the stress and panic of being told “you have 2 hours to evacuate”? People with pets, elderly family members, young babies – honestly, my heart goes out to them and I hope I’m never in a similar situation….EVER! Of course, the smoke affected so many. We had forest fires in N. Ontario and the air here (I’m about as “south” as you can get) was affected for days. And the East Coast has been battered by storms and lengthy power losses AND they’ve had fires as well – talk about BOTH extremes of nightmarish weather.
Congratulations to the very deserving and adorable kitten Mittens. (**the name of my first kitten**) She landed the best gig in the world! Seeing this beautiful soul being loved is so satisfying, Thank You.
Purchases: Dior Addict Lip Tint in Natural Berry. Not in love with it yet.
Weekend Plans: I will take it easy, for the first day in 2 weeks & Farmers Market Sunday
Year Plans: A couple work goals & Find more joy
Recent Purchases/Rediscoveries: My Electrum Celestial Witch palette arrived and it’s unbelievably beautiful.
Weekend plans: Going to feast with some friends on Sunday!
Any big plans for the remainder of the year? I have major surgery scheduled in a few weeks.
Good luck on the surgery. It can be stressing to think about, I know.
I had to google the palette, it looks amazing!
Having gone through major surgery just a year and half ago, I will be hoping and praying that all goes well with yours, Zia. It can be a bit nerve wracking in the few weeks, then days before, but once it’s behind you it feels like such a heavy load has been lifted up off of you! 💜🙏🏼💜
Recent Purchases: PML Dark Star Mascara, Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm in Vanilla, Natasha Denona Glam Palette, Sephora Eyeshadow Brush #15 x 2
Rediscovery: PML Blush in Desert Rose
Weekend Plans: Pancake Breakfast!
Any Big Plans For The Rest of The Year: Celebrating My Birthday, Getting My Covid Vaccine
I’m keeping Mittens in my thoughts and trying to keep fingers crossed. Such a young little ting, and so cute. I’m sure she knows she’s come to a loving place where she’ll be taken good care of.
Recent Purchases/Rediscoveries: A Cera-Ve face wash. I need much gentler face products right now as my skin is quite dry, generally it’s normal/oily, I’ll also need an even gentler moisturizer, luckily there seem to be some quite affordable options.
Other than the Cera-Ve, nothing, no purchases, no rediscoveries. A very boring makeup week, though I went all purple on my lids for a dentist appointment. (SG eyeshadows only.)
Weekend plans: Rest seems to be in order according to how I feel, and a few doggy walks with my best guy Stubbs.
Any big plans for the remainder of the year? Getting through this treatment, having surgery, I hope and then recover. Oh. and probably start radiation treatment. Gosh what fun!
That damnable Big C got you too, Helene? I am so sorry that you are facing all the above that you wrote about. Also, i will keep you in my prayers for a FULL, complete recovery and most importantly, cured. They said that I got very lucky with mine being in situ inside of a very large fibroid instead of leeching beyond into the uterine walls…so she never got any lymph nodes tested. Well, guess what? Now I have a few enlarged lymph nodes in my rear arm pit. May your Doc be more cautious than mine!
Thank you so much, Nancy!
You never think it’ll happen to you, until it does, Cancer, or other really serious illnesses. Then suddenly there you are, having a lump, in my case in the right breast.
I have an older oncologist, very experienced, very nice, I feel lucky to have him as my doctor.
There are many changes, going through treatments, I get chemo, so I’ve lost most of my hair, what’s left is about quarter of an inch. I hated the feeling of hair falling out, so I took Stubbs’ trimmer and just cut it off. My skin is now dry, after being a normal/oily combo, my lashes are sparse, and my brows never recovered from the 1990’s. 🙂
I’m so sad you have enlarged lymph nodes, I hope they are checking them thoroughly. Keep us posted!
I’ll keep you in my thoughts, Nancy!