So....talk about.....CANCER SUPPORT THREAD !!

[WriterofWords]

That's great! Every bit of good news is wonderful!!

 

[HennyJenny]

Excellent news! Glad to hear that you are doing well! You continue to be in my thoughts!

Jenny

 

[Lunachick]

Well, along with the good news comes the "other" news: I'm starting to lose my hair. It's slow but it's happening. Upstairs and downstairs, if you know what I mean. As you may know I have a lot of hair, really thick. I did cut it shorter but not real short. If I comb my fingers through I'm coming out with about ten strands or so, each time I do it. I know this is just the beginning.......man, it's gonna be strange. I usually shed some on a regular basis, but I know this is different. Tis what it is. I'll be a lot cooler over the summer! I look at it this way: as long as I can handle the poison every month with hardly any ill effects, the hair loss I can handle, like you all said, it will grow back. I have a wig that looks almost exactly like my real hair, so I'll use that for work and when I get home I'll pull that sucker off and go with my scarves, or a sun hat. I don't wear baseball caps, but Sara (chilling in muscadine) does, and I have a few of them that I never wear, so I'm sending them to her. She likes baseball caps.

This should be interesting.....I wonder when I'll hand the shaver over to DH to shave my head this time.

 

[lurky]

 

[verthandi]

I'm sorry you are facing this, but you will do fine. I have a daughter in law that battled cancer. She lost all her hair three days before her wedding. I don't know how she did it, she never missed a beat. She had two wigs ready, pulled one out of the closet and put it on and went to the rehersal dinner. The day of her wedding had to have been the hottest day we had all summer, she danced and danced and smiled all day. Individuals like my DIL and you give me courage to face my minor difficults in this world. Hang on tight friend, you will get through this and we will all talk to you, joke with you and sigh with you when needed.

 

[ranchhand]

Luna, bummer about the hair! I met one of my friends many years ago when she was "bald as an egg". She wouldn't uncover her head at first, after a week she was proudly displaying a very nicely shaped head! She's been cancer free for, uhmmmm.... 25 something years now? Loooong time.

My sister had a bilateral mastectomy back in the 1980s - she had chemo and radiation. Said the biggest shock was waking up one morning and all her hair was on her pillowcase! And to add insult to injury, it all grew back brown! (no one ever mentioned to her that her hairdresser already knew that would be the case,

) All these years later it's blonde and she swears she doesn't color it.

Mom had really thick snow white hair - hers grew back in light brown!

 

[Lunachick]

I wonder what the shape of my head will look like? I was told I will most likely keep my eyebrows and lashes. I hope so, nothing like looking BLANK and having chemo brain.

I have a little grey coming in here and there, I usually just colour it myself with a dye that matches my original colour, of course I can't do that now. I'm curious as to how mine will grow back......kinky, curly, all grey.......I'll find out in the fall. Either way, I'm ready for it.

Wouldn't you know it? I have a couple of chin whiskers that have to problem showing up. Why can't the chemicals target those?

 

[verthandi]

sick humor here...so the grey will not be a problem for a while, it will be gone.

So what color and type of hair do you want when it comes back...dream the perfect new hair. Hate those chin hairs, they never show up until I am half way to work and making sure the last of the breakfast muffin is off my face.

 

[Lunachick]

Quote:
Thanks for the laugh.

I can count on you.

Hmmmm- what do I want when my hair grows back? Probably my old hair basically, either no grey or all grey. How's that?

And no more whiskers!

 

[verthandi]

How about a real fiery redhead? (and no chin whiskers and never have to shave your legs again?) Might as well put those positive thoughts to good use.