Getting ready for Aunt Becca's wedding

Saturday will be a big day for the Kirszners (and the Katzes).  The girls can't wait, of course--there have been several recent incidents of spontaneous petal-tossing pantomime.

The past week actually turned out to be a little rocky for Stella.  Aside from the more familiar steroid-related inconveniences, she also had some stomach pain as well as a little weakness and soreness in her arms and legs.  These too are common side effects from steroids, but Stella had not experienced them before so it was a little tough for her.

But she's much better now, as the Decadron now seems to have finally left her system.  And the steroids that she takes in her next treatment phase will be in much lower doses, and for much shorter durations--so we think that steroid annoyances are behind us.

Coincidentally, as soon as Stella started feeling good again over the weekend, we noticed that she was losing some of her hair.  This is a delayed effect of the Adriamycin course she went through last month.  The hair loss isn't really noticeable yet, but if it continues for a couple more days, she'll need to start wearing her wig until the hair grows back.  (Side note: is there a more graceless word in the English language than "wig?"  Suggestions for alternate terms are welcome; I am considering switching to "Hair-tron 3000.")  Anyway, Stella's OK with it if that's the way things turn out.  Besides, her Hair-tron 3000 is very pretty.