Fighting Breast Cancer

It has been brought to my attention that my eyebrows have been disappearing.  This is disconcerting to me because my lack of energy from the anemia is making it difficult to express myself.  Now, how am I supposed to register facial expressions without eyebrows?  How will I look surprised?  How will I convey thoughtful contemplation when I have no brow to furrow? 

I go to the bathroom mirror to practice.  I smile, I laugh, I look pensive….I try a myriad of different looks but they all look the same.  Like I’m an alien holding my head in different positions.

Someone had given me a wig catalog and inside they also featured eyebrow prosthetics.  I thought it was hysterical at the time because they looked like miniature fake mustaches.  I thought it would be funny to put them on a Cabbage Patch Doll and make him look like Tom Selleck. 

Instead of ordering fake eyebrows, I pick up a pencil and very sofly feather on some eyebrows.  I end up drawing them on unevenly and look cock-eyed.  This is hopeless.

A hotflash comes on and that is when I take a full look at myself.  I mean I really look at myself.  I have hit the trifecta of beauty, haven’t I?  I’m bald, fat and sweaty.  And now with the missing eyebrows, it’s official:  I’m Gross.

By the way, that really is Tom Selleck’s moustache on that Cabbage Patch doll.  My husband read my entry and thought it would be funny to airbrush one in.  The moustache came from the Tom Selleck poster below, which is curiously endorsed to a “Michael.”  Hmmmmmmm….

There is so much great Tom Selleck stuff on Amazon.  And it’s a good thing too, because I still love Magnum.

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