One of Mady's visitors last weekend was a friend of ours who recently finished treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma—she’s now cancer free and her hair is growing back nicely! She brought Mady a couple of stylishly funky hats and a beautiful blue wig. The wig is better than one could have imagined and made of very nice materials (not the like the crazy purple and pink Halloween wig that Julia found at Party Needs). We think it's the perfect style for Mady's return to school. But when will that be? Well, we don't yet know all of the details of the transition back to school and home, but we are working on the details while Madeline recovers in the hospital.
I wanted to create a positive pressure room in our home for Madeline located in our master bedroom so she would have her own bathroom, and had come up with some workable ideas only to have Trey and the doctors look at me like I was crazy. So I am focusing on smaller more workable short term solutions, like buying a hepa filter vacuum, a hepa filter air purifier and stock in Cal Stat hand sanitizer. I am also ridding our house of all superfluous chemicals, and waving a sad goodbye to seeing really white clothes exit our dryer as bleach goes to the wayside. As for having Madeline go back to school, there is this awesome woman here who works with schools to provide an easier transition for children with Leukemia, talking to her classmates about the disease, if Madeline chooses. She hasn't yet chosen what she would like done, if anything, right now.
The wig, whichever wig she chooses, or wigless if that feels better, is certainly one of the big steps. Love. ca
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What! No bleach?! Does that mean that all my white business shirts will start turning yellow? I guess that's okay, as long as you don't make me get rid of my drums of Benzene, Napthalene, and Cobalt Sulphate in the basement... --Trey
Mady!!! You got your neon blue wig!!! How cool is that? You look great in it. I can't wait to see which wig, or no wig, you choose for the first dy back.
And whether you choose to get somebody to come to class to talk about it or not, I will try and help make the transition to school easy. This includes, but is not limitted to: helping study for any tests, assisstance in homework, homework services (but that's cheating, but some homeworks aren't really necessary so you could argue that it's okay, but really it's up to you, and you probably won't need that type of services and stuff, but it's for you to think about, but actually I could just help you if you need it, instead of doing it for you - yeah, that would be better, so anyway, now I'm just being polysyndetonic...if I choose to trust last year's latin teacher...), and really anything else. Assisstance reading this comment maybe?
Okay, so, I'll see you sometime this week! (but when I do not know for sure)
~~Stephanie~~
I am a supporter of the Minnie Mouse wig. (It's good for Halloween, y'know!)
And I add onto Stephanie's offer. Because I've already done the math class (with Ms. Coleman, too.) And yes, I brag.
Please...don't hurt me!
Madeline - you are simply gorgeous - and neon blue seems to be one of your signature colors! Love ya - Aunt Misty
Mady,
That neon blue wig looks almost natural on you. When my sister saw it she asked me if you had dyed your hair blue. I said you hadn't, but I agreed that it looked like you had dyed it.
--Joanna
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