So on Wednesday I went on Sales calls with one of my GM’s. I have to say I was a little apprehensive because he had not seen me without hair. I sent him Bitmoji of myself saying see you soon. It was like a little warning. When I got to the hotel he was outside. He peeked through the window like a little kid. When I got out of the car he gave me the usual greeting and I said, “are you ok?” He said, “yes, why?” I said, “well I don’t have hair and we are going to do calls together.” He said, “you look good plus I have a friend that is going through it and she also rocks the look.” He made me feel comfortable so we left and did our calls.

Then yesterday I had to go see my orthodontist to get my new trays and the ladies at the office where unbelievable. Trisha and Angel started talking about my baldness and asked what I had so I told them. Angel said she had a close friend that has just started to grow her hair back. In walks in Dr. W and she says, “my mom had a red hair wig”, I said, “that’s was her alto ego”, we all laughed. The the girls mentioned a breast cancer walk. Oct 20 we will send you the information. They said it was a foundation for the Dr. mother that had passed. It broke my heart.

As I leave I remember I need a few items so I went to the store and picked up a few things. Mind you I had no makeup. This one lady walks by me and says, “you look beautiful”. I told her thank you and kept on shopping a second complete stranger walks up and says, “I like your hair style, I don’t know why you have it but I like.” I said yeah, “it’s cancer.” She says, “whatever it is you look beautiful.” Then she proceeded to say you don’t have cancer God does! Then a third lady comes walks by and tells me you look good. I was like, “wow” I can’t believe these complete strangers are being so nice. So I go to cash out and the lady at the register starts to tell me about her cancer and how she was in remission for several years and how good I looked.

All this made me think of how we still have compassion within us. Why during 911 or after the natural disasters we can all come together and help on another? And then it came to me, if we all put aside our religious opinions, political rants, gender and racial racism and just be compassionate to one another we could get so much done for our country and our people! All we have to do is respect each other and our differences. If a stranger off the street can be kind it should be easy for the people closest to us!

I will continue to say, day in and day out I am so blessed by my family, friends and even strangers that put a smile on my face every day!