VOTE!

On By Lesleykluchin

Here I am with my newly grown hair after a year of chemotherapy. To my surprise it came back all gray! I had a few white strands going in, but this new sassy look is surprising. I’m thinking …gray is the new blonde! So I am delighted that I finally have some hair and a few eyebrows! AND that I survived long enough to vote! Yay!

Ovarian cancer is a beast. Remission isn’t an option at this stage, but treatment fortunately is. I’m alive and I was able to vote blue by mail to “bring back better”. The link in Florida let me know my vote was received and counted! Boom!

It’s been difficult enough to deal with cancer and to also have to turn on the news every day and watch our inept leader mishandle a pandemic. I’ve fought way too hard to live to succumb to COVID just because our President wants to deny scientific safety measures for his own political gain!

Well, he’s not going to defeat me! I voted, my entire family voted (in different states) and we ALL crushed it! I pray we made a difference so that intelligence, reason, kindness, science, and constitutional knowledge will once again find its way back to Washington  DC. It will take time to undo the damage and division created in the last four years, but I am confident we can fix things!

I’ve been off WordPress for months. This site has changed considerably and I’m clueless how to manipulate or manage the settings. But, on days when I am not throwing up or feeling crummy, I will try to write a little. I hope to be back. And, when I figure out what happened to the settings that allowed me to change my profile picture I will update to my new gray look.

The times they are a changing… and I am so grateful I am alive to see things improve. ✌️❤️🎸

26 thoughts on “VOTE!”

  2. All I can add to what you said here is AMEN, Lesley. That, and you do look fabulous. It’s the look of authority. You have had an incredible year, and you certainly didn’t need TheRUMP or COVID or Amy Baloney Barrett, but you made it. Wear it like the badge it is. Take good care. We need you.

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  3. Thank you. I am very hopeful. I trust my doctor who has done miraculous things for me. He will figure out a maintenance form of chemo that I will be able to tolerate. Unfortunately I’m a highly allergic gal. I was feeling great today, peeled an Avacado and then couldn’t breath. So I took Benadryl and googled my symptoms which were almost identical to how mangoes affect me. Who knew avocado and mango are both similar in that they are fruits with latex and tree nut components. So now I have to avoid avocados! ! The cancer meds lower my immune system so any allergies I have are more intense. It’s just how it is. I’ll figure it, my doc will come up with a plan and I’ll be ok. I’m convinced that I will beat this disease. It’s just gonna be a bit rocky along the way. Thanks for your encouragement. ❤️😘✌️

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  4. Thank you. But I’m not in remission. So my treatment continues. I’ve been on a pill form of chemo for two months which worked well however last week I had a severe reaction to the medication and had to stop due to breathing issues and fluid in the lungs, a severe side affect. So I have to go ten days off the medication, have blood work done, and then try yet another pill form of chemo. So I’m in a reprieve situation right now. I’m in between chemo. In the next week or so I begin again. Hopefully I will be able to tolerate it and be able to continue posting. 🤞🏼✌️❤️

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  9. Great to see you back Lesley, and that hair rocks! Thank you, and your family for voting to get rid of the inept leader we have. This was the first year that I can truly say I felt proud to be a voter and (hopefully) kick some DT ass right out the door.

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    1. Thank you, Deb. Here’s to kicking DT out the door! And I’m learning to like the new hair. It has a mind of its own but I’m fine with that. Being bald my head got cold. So it’s nice to have some fuzz on my scalp. Whatever color it is I’m fine with. I figure chemo is enough poison so I’m not going to color my hair and put even more chemicals back into my body than I have to. Besides, I hear gray is in style these days. Lol 😂

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  11. OMG, Lesley, it is wonderful to see you back here! Welcome home!!😏 And bravo for making your first return post about a subject so important to Americans and to the world. Re WordPress, have you tried the link to the Classic Editor? As long as I make sure I’m in the Classic Editor I’m OK (until they decide to remove those options).

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    1. Thank you Jane for your kind words and the tip about classic editor. I didn’t know about that. I feel like a stranger in a strange land… I mean site. I’ll figure it out, hopefully. It used to be easy to add and change photos and now that’s confusing. It might be my chemo brain which can get befuddled from time to time. But I’m trying! Lovely to hear from you! ❤️

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