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This summer I was having my Chemo. treatments. Local groups make and donate to the cancer center, shawls for our shoulders, knit hats for our cold heads, and even cloth "Chemo." caps to wear like a scarf.
During one of my 3 hour long sessions, I spied a sweet, cloth Chemo. cap. It had pretty material with cute sayings on it, and a 4" wide, cranberry colored band that went all around, and tied in the back. I figured that it would be something that I would enjoy wearing at home while my hair was growing back.
The first time that I decided to wear it at home, was on a very hot day. I thought "If I wet the cap, it will cool me by dehydration", so I wet the cap, and put it on.
And it worked! I was comfortable for about an hour, until the cap dried out.
Pleased with my new cap, and how good it felt when it was damp, I removed it to redampen it.
As I was holding it at the sink under the running water, I saw that my hands were RED. I was surprised. They didn't seem to have a rash, or anything.
I looked up into the mirror, while thinking about this puzzle - and noticed that I had a 4" wide band of pink around my entire head. The cranberry band had bled (it wasn't color-fast).
After a lot of scrubbing, and a lot of laughing, I was able to remove the color.
I was VERY glad that I hadn't worn it about town. In the summer heat, I could have sweated, and the color could have run then. THAT would have scared me!
The moral of this story should be - big laughs can come from little presents.
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