It's Saturday night and my daughter is out at the movies with friends, so Wayne and I are just hanging out at home. He's been feeling a little green since this afternoon, and though we were expecting he'd probably start feeling bad today, I was kind of hoping he wouldn't with the new "cocktail."
So back to where I started. As Wayne played on the 'puter, I was going through the DVR and watching things from the past two weeks that I hadn't gotten to yet, and one of those things was an episode of TLC's "Say Yes to the Dress." This particular episode featured Margo, a young woman who was battling cervical cancer. As she tried on gowns, she bravely pulled her hat from her bald head and showed everyone how beautiful she was even without hair. This was especially poignant for me because last night I used the clippers and shaved what is left of Wayne's hair down to barely fuzz, and when we went out to the drugstore this afternoon he put on one of the chemo caps I knitted for him for the first time, and he hid his almost bald head from the rest of the world. At the end of Margo's episode, they showed her destination wedding and her walking down the aisle in her white gown with her newly-sprouted baby hair, and she looked lovely and so happy, and I felt such joy at seeing her, and what I thought was her win against cancer. The tag at the end of the show told me that she has since died.
I cried.
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