First, thanks to everyone for their good wishes!


Quote Originally Posted by margo49 View Post
Voice of experience talking here
Yeah, soft and smooth.
I personally found headscarfs the way to go . Because you can cover your ears more and the back of the neck. Then you look ultra-religious/ spiritually advanced when it combines with the steroid glow. A bandana is too small and in a way accentuates your baldy hair.
Thank you for this suggestion, Margo! Mom will love silk scarves too! Though, in Minnesota, where it's below freezing much of the time, and there are long stretches of below zero fahrenheit weather during the next six months, they may not be warm enough. That won't stop me from making a few, though, should she need them!

Quote Originally Posted by margo49 View Post
Do NOT go for "funny" or "cute" I had a friend did that for me and it was just so awful. You feel bad enough without drawing attention to your head-wear with something funky and outrageous (and this from me who is funky and outrageous IRL)
Good point! There's really nothing funny or cute about cancer. I'll keep that in mind while still working on "cheerful" to help lift both her spirits AND my dad's!

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Hope it all works out for your Mum.
Can you tell us a little about her and give us a name; for those of us who are spiritually a bit less sophisticated and not yet got our Black Belt who find it easier if we can put an actual name in our prayers[/QUOTE]

We hope so too! For you -- Mom is Irene Leguil, lives in a beautiful small town in Southeastern Minnesota. She's 76, has this rare thing called "pleomorphic sarcoma" in her left leg, down in her calf area. Surgery that "needs" to be done "asap" is being delayed because the Mayo Clinic "doesn't know where to put her" -- beaureaucrats! Amputation is a possibility, I understand, but that's going to put quite a crimp in her twice daily walks, so I'm hoping for her that they don't have to go that far!

Karen in Boise