That’s fantastic that you’re a survivor and that pottery project sounds like a great way to celebrate.
I can’t imagine how hard losing your hair must have been. One thing that surprised me was learning how varied peoples’ experiences with that were. Some didn’t lose their hair at all, some only had partial loss. One man I knew only lost hair from the neck down. I was told my hair might come back gray and curly and I said “Cool–I’ll look like Peter Capaldi!” Didn’t happen, dammit.
One day when I was in the store wearing a head wrap a man asked me, “Chemo?” He then pointed to his hair and said “Don’t worry–it grows back.”
A lot of the kindness of strangers seems to come from people who’ve had experience with cancer.
