Armpit Hair… Don’t… Care…
Well, I mostly don’t care.
When you’re doing radiation, you can’t shave your armpits.
Radiation is 4-5 weeks long plus recovery.
Let me repeat that. Over a month of not shaving your armpits. As a woman, this is a long ass time.
Have you ever gone one week without shaving your armpits? I don’t think I ever went more than a day or two. This isn’t like shaving your legs, armpits are 1-2-3 why would you skip it?
Mind you, it’s May. In New York. New Yorkers wait ALL YEAR for the summer.
We wait and worship the sunshine, warm air, SHORT SLEEVE / NO SLEEVE shirts, dresses, ya know, the usual. But now, if I raise my arm too high, they’ll see my 1/2 inch armpit hair entering week 4, ie I still have another 1-2 weeks to go. Who are “they?” No clue. And now, I don’t even care. Really. I dare someone to say something to me. That will be a conversation they regret for the rest of their life. Hah! Lucky naive a-holes.
They won’t see though. Since I have to use my Tri… (no clue the actual name) gel/moisturizer 2x a day, I wear t-shirts that will be thrown out post radiation. Why? The gel stains every shirt. I ordered mens XL black and red t-shirts off of Amazon knowing this ahead of time thanks to my radiation nurse. I wear these every day. Every. Day. Black leggings and an oversized ugly ass t-shirt even on the weekends because yes, you have to use the gel every. day. So, the sleeves are too long to see my hairy pits. #smallwins
I should have got black and yellow shirts so I could sing that song, “black and yellow, black and yellow.” Though yellow feels overly happy and obnoxious given the circumstances, lol.
All things considered, it could be much worse. But these are the things you go through during rad. Things the average person never has to even consider.
At least radiation is post surgery and during the cancer-free stage. Amen to that.
This is basically comical to me because in the grand scheme of the cancer experience, this is a ridiculous call out. Hence admitting I mostly don’t care about this minor inconvenience.
Keeping things positive here,
Ali Rose xoxo