2018 Paint paper pink

Page 48 2018 Paint the Paper Pink Lincoln Daily News October 2018 Wendy said that she learned a little more about tolerance. Going back to those hats and turbines, she said ‘not all cancer patients wear turbans. You don’t know what is going on inside based on what you see outside.” It taught her to be more tolerant when she experienced other people having a bad day or showing a bad attitude, because she would remind herself that she was only seeing what was on the outside, she had no idea what that person was going through on the inside. Wendy said that during her diagnosis and treatment, she felt fortunate that her doctors were very good communicators. She learned to ask questions and be proactive in her treatment, and the doctors responded well, giving her plenty of information. She said perhaps her one surprise was the loss of underarm hair from the radiation. Wendy’s surgery was done from the side of her breast, so the incision was below her armpit. Her final stages of radiation were done on the incision and it destroyed her underarm hair. She asked the doctor about it, and he said that the hair would probably never come back. In her social media posts she counted that as a bonus, “My doctor was pleased that my skin has healed so well and told me he doesn’t expect a re-occurrence. YES! Praise God! I asked about the fact that no hair is growing under my arm and he told me it might never grow there again – WOW – a bonus to radiation therapy! LOL!” Wendy says she is grateful for so many things, perhaps most of all for the love and support she received from friends and family and especially from her husband Terry. She noted he was very attentive, helping her with medications she had to take, applying lotions to her radiation burns, and tucking her into bed. For Terry who defines his relationship with Wendy as “joined at the hip,” being an active part of her treatment and recovery was a given. There was no place else he wanted to be than beside his wife as she went through this. Wendy recalled that was also the first year that Terry had served as Santa at White Oaks Mall. That made it hard for him because he had a duty to fulfil and he couldn’t be with her at the doctor’s office every single visit like he would have liked. But it worked out, and she said he was there when she needed him the most and that was all that mattered. Terry recalled one day at the mall that took his breath away. He was sitting in his Santa chair and looked out across the area and saw CONTINUE ...