{"id":746,"date":"2012-11-11T19:06:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T19:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turningheadsproject.org\/?p=746"},"modified":"2013-07-26T17:04:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T17:04:41","slug":"heather-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/heather-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was initially diagnosed with ovarian cancer in July of 2006.Cancer is an old nemesis to our family. None of us did anything to cause this to come our way but, nonetheless, we have had to clean up it&#8217;s messes time and again. When you are the person diagnosed it certainly changes your perspective.I became guilt ridden and a bit overly concerned with making sure other people were comfortable with my diagnosis and treatment.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Believe me, I have a wide variety of wigs, hats and scarves and have used them all. I developed a heavier hand with makeup and the ability to ignore strangers for fear of the pity I might see in their gaze. I, eventually, with the help and of support from my family and friends at Gilda&#8217;s Club, came to understand that for my own mental health I needed to stop expending all that energy in that direction.<\/p>\n<div>To put it simply, I got tired of trying to make everyone else comfortable with what have been doing my darnedest to simply get through. I stopped trying to cover up the evidence of my struggle and now treasure each moment, each conversation, each shared joke, each giggle, each person in my life. I stand up straighter and am able to look anyone in the eye and smile. I smile not to reassure them but because I am happy.\u00a0I heard about Turning Heads Project from the angels at the infusion center where I receive treatment. When I found out that the focus of the project is to celebrate and embrace the bald heads of women who have travelled this road I wanted to be a part of this movement. I had such a wonderful day with these devoted superwomen! They are wonderful and generous with their time and were able to make me feel so comfortable that I, and my miniature posse, had a great time.<\/div>\n<div>I like my head&#8230;there&#8217;s all kinds of stuff going on in there!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview ngg-ajax-pagination-none\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-45bf4dbe48abf951ecf8237ccc44e591-1\">\n\n    \t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/heather\/mg_7648.jpg\"\n               title=\"\"\n               data-src=\"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/heather\/mg_7648.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/heather\/thumbs\/thumbs_mg_7648.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"116\"\n               data-title=\"mg_7648\"\n               data-description=\"\"\n          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Green<\/h6>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save', 'Share\/Bookmark']);\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"  style=\"background:url(http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/favicon.png) no-repeat scroll 4px 0px;padding:0 0 0 25px;display:inline-block;height:16px;vertical-align:middle\"><span>Share\/Bookmark<\/span><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nwpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was initially diagnosed with ovarian cancer in July of 2006.Cancer is an old nemesis to our family. None of us did anything to cause this to come our way but, nonetheless, we have had to clean up it&#8217;s messes time and again. When you are the person diagnosed it certainly changes your perspective.I became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}