November 18/2017

Yes it’s true !! Jamie finally convinced me to go to Mexico the Cancun side for a holiday. I really had no interest in going. I feel like I have been traveling all year already. Two trips to San Diego/ Tijuana, and 3 trips back and forth to Fort St John. But poor Jamie worked through all this running around I did so he really wanted to get away. The really great part is that Mac and Jolee have decided to come with us. I can’t wait to show them our place in Cancun. I am sure we will all have a great time. Now just two weeks to wait  😜

I am still feeling really good, except for the nausea that I experience on a daily basis. I am hopeing that once I am done this one final test we will have some answers to that too. I kind of think it might be the hernia they found on the last test. But until I go back and see my doctor we dont really know that yet. 

I am still surprising people with my dark hair. Nobody recognizes me. Sometime it is quite funny. My doctor last week asked me if I decided I wanted a change and dyed it black. ( I think it is dark brown not black but most people think k I am black at first glance)  my drug store where I have gone to for years and know most of the phatmatists by first name , had no clue who I was when I filled my prescription last week,  he said I know your voice but I just can’t put a name to you.  I told him a d he said oh you look so different.  Lol lol  I went to see my Dad last week one day and he opened the door and just looked at me and then said , Oh Beth its you ?  I just can’t get used to that black hair. Lol then we went to a my friends  (Brenda) house for a visit the other night and her  Grandaughters came over. They have met me many times before. But she had to ask Brenda who I was, she was a little scared because we were telling her she knew me. I talked to her a little bit and then she came around.  Then I went to my sister Lynne’s house one day. The door was open so I walked in. She came walking around the corner as I was standing there and she actually screemed, she said I didn’t know who you were with that dark hair. She actually scared me too.  We both laughed. 👩🏽

I guess I see my dark hair  every day in the mirror so I am getting used to it.  But these curls I don’t know what to do with them? My favourite part is when my hair is freshly washed and I can comb it kind of straight. But the curls pop right up in a couple of seconds. I can tell it is getting longer. I have finally started to use my hair towel ( you know the kind that wraps like a turban on the top of your head) so that means I have enough hair to dry that I need that towel. Now if I can just figure out a style. Right now it is different every day. 🤔

Jamie and I were away for so long and didn’t get to spend much time with the grandkids, so we are taking each one on a special day with us. Last week was Ava and we spent the day at West Edmonton Mall, what were we thinking ? Being there on a Saturday ???? This week we are going to Kingsway Garden Mall. I hope that is better ? There is a Disney store there so hopefully Chloee can find a special treat there. As today is her day.  It really is a nice day for us too as we get some one on one time with each grandchild. 👼🏼👼🏼

Jamie talked me into going shopping a couple of weeks ago for a bathing suit for our impending Mexico trip. My friend Angie told me that Swimco sells bathing suits for women with mastectomies. ( thanks Angie ❤️ I think ) Let me tell you that was an experience, first of all the girl helping me was like (12) ok maybe about 18. I threw her off right off the bat by telling her I needed a bathing suit for women with double mastectomy.  She said for you ? I was like no just wondering !!!! Of course me.  Then she started to show me suits that my Grandmother would not wear. I told her I am in my early 50ies. ( ok so I lied a little )  but really they looked like dresses not swim suits. I know my sisters are both laughing now because I don’t swim actually I don’t like water  much. But when in Mexico I need to look good and like I just might like the water. Anyway this girl finally found me a few choices to pick from. Then she tells me, I must come out of the dressing room and show her each one as I try it on so she can help me decided, which if any I like. I told her I will decided which ones I like from the privacy of my little 4×4 cubical with a very large mirror in it. She kept knocking on  my door and checking to see if I needed out I think ?  But after careful consideration and feeling just so uncomfortable, I finally decided on the only one I like a little bit.  You know a it’s bitsie  teen weeny yellow polka dot bakini.  Much to my bathing suit expert being not to happy with me because I didn’t show her which one I liked while it was on.  Now let’s see if I am brave enough to wear it 😎

Today’s saying : life can only be understood backwards……But it must be lived forward. 

Beth 😇