The Chemo Fairy

The Chemo Fairy made her debut in spring 2011, when my friend Diane, yet another breast cancer"victim,"  was nearing the end of her chemo treatments.   I wanted to celebrate her last chemo appointment by arriving in a goofy pink outfit with giant boob cakes to share.  To make use of my recent "rack vacancies," I stuffed the bra with pink ribbon mints and breast cancer bracelets to hand out to everyone.  We had so much fun, I knew the Chemo Fairy would certainly make future appearances.  That is when the outfit began to evolve.

Dr. Olson joined the fun.  He is an awesome oncologist, wonderful human being and an all around good guy!  It says a lot when nurses choose him if they get cancer.

Anybody want a mint or a pink bracelet?

 Diane, an endoscopy nurse, has an equally warped sense of humor.  A month later, "What goes around, comes around," proved true when she showed up to my first colonoscopy dressed as the "Colon Fairy!"  Yes, she had goofy glasses, rubber gloves and came bearing a "colon cake" complete with anatomical details, including a polyp!  What a nut!  Because I was polyp-free, she presented me with a blue "clean colon" ribbon that hangs in my bathroom to this day!

Tiffany is surprised by the Chemo Fairy at her last Chemo in June.  She is a true Chemo Warrior and did better than I did during Chemo.  Part of it is that she is younger, cuter and thinner than I am, but I don't hold that against her!  I had orderd new fairy costume components for Tiffany's day, but alas they did not arrive in time.  I substitued a short tutu with my new "liquid metal" hot pink leggings which kept sliding off my backside whenever I bent over.  Unplanned comedy...anything to cheer up the chemo lounge!  After I was done yucking it up with all the patients and "blessing" them with my wand and handing out boobie cakes, I flitted out the door in a less than graceful fashion, tugging at the back of my hot pink leggings to keep my underwear covered.  Apparently, after I left, a patient asked, "Does the Chemo Fairy come every week?" 

By the time Louise's Cancer Birthday Bash came around a week ago, all the pieces were here and so, this is as good as it gets!    Loise used her party to raise cancer awareness, promote local bands, collect food for our food banks and auctioned off donated items to raise money.  The entire event was terrific, just like the lady who planned it! 

The Chemo Fairy doesn't want to keep all this fun to herself and would like others to join the Chemo Fairy Club and share photos of your exploits and outfits. 

A great and inexpensive place to buy pink ribbon mints that are individually wrapped, pink silicone bracelets, ribbon lapel pins and rolls of pink ribbon stickers is at orientaltradingcompany.com. 

I got my wig and hot pink eyelashes at candyapplecostumes.com, very affordable and great service. 

My tutu was custom made by "lil tutu princess" on Amazon.com.  She added a row pink ribbons with rhinestones all around the waist! 

The leggings came from onlyleggings.com.  They were the only ones I found to have sizes in the hot metallic pink leggings up to 3XXL.  I suggest you order larger than you are to avoid my "mooning" problem.

I got my pink hightops from Zappos.com...love them. They do run big so don't buy over your usual size.

I picked up my wings at a dance store (for ballet and square dancing) as well as the first short tutu. 

I have made pink cupcakes using a stawberry cake mix, frosted them with cream cheese frosting, then topped them with a watermelon candy ring stuffed with either a cherry sour ball or a raspberry gumdrop.  Everyone loved the Boobie Cakes!  I have also purchased a ribbon cake pan and a ribbon cookie cutter. 

Those are my ideas and I would love to hear yours!