Snow Globe Status: Improving

Snow Globe Status: Improving

🌼 Date: Saturday, March 21, 2026

⚡ Energy: Low but peaceful

💓 Status: Resting, healing, and slightly less flaky 😆

🥰 Outlook: Cautiously optimistic (and moisturized!)

Today was what I would call a professional level nothing day.

And honestly?

I needed it.

No appointments.
No chaos.
No unexpected medical plot twists.

Just rest… a shower… and me minding my own business.

And I’m happy to report…

We may have a breakthrough.

After weeks of feeling like a human snow globe every time I took my clothes off…

I am officially noticing a difference.

Less flaking.
Less shedding.
Less “did someone shake me before I walked into this room?” energy. 😆

And I’m pretty sure I know why…

👉 The dry brushing experiment?
Working.

👉 The new lotion lineup?
Also working.

Look at me out here accidentally becoming a skincare influencer 😂

At my radiation “set-up” appointment, they recommended a specific cream to start using 2–3 times a day beginning with my first treatment and continuing for a few weeks after.

Because apparently (and this feels slightly rude), radiation has a cumulative effect…

Which means even after treatments are done, your skin can continue to react—
burns, irritation, even blisters can show up weeks later.

Good times.

So the goal is to get ahead of it as much as possible.

The cream they recommended has calendula in it (yes, I Googled—it’s a flower 🌼 because of course it is), and it’s known for being super soothing and healing for the skin.

And then… because I don’t do anything halfway…

I also found an oncology lotion that’s specifically made for chemo skin and all its lovely side effects—

Including what I have now officially named:

Snow Globe Syndrome™ ❄️

So now?

I am armed with two lotions.
A dry brush.
And a whole lot of determination not to molt in public. 😆

We are entering a new chapter, friends:

Hydration Nation.

Will this fix everything?

Who knows.

But for the first time in a while, I feel like I might actually be one step ahead of something instead of constantly playing catch-up.

And I’ll take that win.

Small progress is still progress.

And today?

Felt like progress.

💗 Tina –
One Badass Day at a Time