Hello from the other side of chemo! It’s been a little over a week since my very last treatment, and I’ve been celebrating ever since. Of course, it’s just one phase that has ended. I still have a lumpectomy and radiation to look forward to (gah!), but in the meantime I’m happy to be almost all done with this cancer business.
One thing I had to stop doing when I started chemo, since I had to avoid crowds and germs while my immune system was more fragile, was venturing out to movie theaters. Roll up to the top of this blog, will you? You’ll note that it says: Cynthia Hawkins, Girl on Film. Mostly because I typed it in as a joke and now I can’t figure out how to undo it, but also because many people know me as a film connoisseur.
Categories: Box of Monsters Blog
Last Halloween, I’d asked a few Nervous Breakdown contributors to share
Everyone’s writing about Charlie Sheen. I didn’t want to write about Charlie Sheen. So I wrote about Emilio’s brother instead. You know, that one-dimensional guy who barely registers in films like Red Dawn and Young Guns. But this is a good thing, you see, because I don’t think I could watch Charlie Sheen in anything anymore, but Emilio’s brother is a-okay: 