The GCW Tour, Buenos Aires & Antarctica: Another Quick Cancer Update

I noticed something today that I hadn't really noticed before. In short, I'm starting to look like a hairless cat or some other weird creature that by all rights should have hair but doesn't. Granted, I shaved my head to get rid of the wisps, but now I'm realizing that I'm pretty much down to wisps most everywhere.

The strangest illustration of this struck me when I was looking at my nose in the bathroom today and realized I could pretty much see up into my sinuses. I've not seen my sinuses before, as typically my nose is full of hair that blocks the view. Not anymore. At this point, all my nose hair is gone.

Can I just say that it is incredibly disconcerting not to have nose hair? It also serves to explain why my typically annoying post nasal drip has turned into a post nasal flood. Without any nose hair, there's nothing to slow it down.

The treatment manuals they give you when you start cancer treatment really ought to include this kind of detail. At this point, most everyone starting chemo is aware that they're going to wind up either looking like a conehead and/or sporting more hats and scarves than they thought possible, but how many people think that one day they're going to look in the mirror and see way more of their nose than they ever wanted to? Personally, this was a surprise I could've done without.

But on the plus side, it appears my ears are now nearly hairless, too. (It's harder to see those in the mirror to know for sure.) Those hairs I won't miss at all.