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[Cynthia12]

I have a thick head of hair, even for this age..like my mom. My poor neighbor lady on the other hand.... :/ She's almost bald. Curls her hair to try and fill in the middle area.
My DH has a very high forehead. And a tiny little spot going in the middle of his head. Not too bad, for our age.
My dad also had hair when he passed. So, good head of hair on both sides when they passed. Both in their 70's. That isn't very long from now for me. Goodness, does it go the same for age as hair as to how things turn out? hmmm.

 

[ozexpat]

My sister called a lawyer. She has to have something wrong with her..forever, out of this. Is Renal Insufficiency something wrong? :/ I guess it will have to be acute, and her needing dialysis... forever. I sure hope it doesn't turn into anything worse than just needing medication for now. I'd rather have her well than need a lawyer because something went wrong that would affect her forever. She is still weak, those lungs and this Renal thing is keeping her that way for now. Wish it could come along faster. She is all smiles when I go visit though. She is a cutie pie, what can I say? I cut her hair today.

Your sister probably has Acute Tubular Necrosis - a form of kidney failure from lack of oxygen to the kidneys brough on by low blood pressure during and following resussitation.

Most people who recover from the initial insult also recover from the ATN.

How long symptoms last can vary - from a few days to upwards of6 weeks.
This may be followed by a period of high urine output as the healed and newly functioning kidneys try to clear the body of fluid and waste.
One or two days after your urine amount rises, symptoms reduce and test results begin to return to normal.
My fingers are crossed for your sister

 

[Cynthia12]

oz, sounds good to me..lets hope for less time in recovery. Would love to get her to her new home..and thank you.

My dog in the meantime, has held out for me in having her pups during all of this..yesterday was day 63. I think it's good to go now Missy..come on pups.

 

[Sylviaanne]

FSG fan?

What does this mean?

 

[LindaB220]

My son, a redhead, started getting the high forehead at 17- he's 28 now and has been shaving his head for a couple of years. Just lately he started keeping a short beard. Wow, he really looks good with it. I hope he keeps it.

I like bald heads or I should say I like the person whether attached to a bald head or not. So many young guys shave their heads especially if their hair is thinning. I think that is liberating, sorta going

at nature. They made the decisions to be bald rather that letting it just happen to them.

Personally I've been clipping my own hair very,short for 14 years now. I always wanted to have gorgeous shampoo ad hair, long, swingy, sexy. Never had it, instead I had long, thin stringy hair - ick. Way back when girls used to iron their hair I never had too. Then in high school I started going gray. At first I pulled out all the gray ones - then came to my senses when I noticed I has having bald spots from yanking out so many gray hairs.

My mom had breast cancer and refused radiation or chemo even tho it had spread to lymph nodes. Instead she was on tamoxifin (spelling??) for 11 years. Her cancer came back and had spread - then chemo and radiation did no good. By then they had discovered if you were on tamoxifin for more than 5 years, it actually caused cancer.

I bring this up because what upset her most was loosing her hair .She got a wig but it was too late by then. She never got to wear it.

After that I wondered if I would have the guts to be bald. After my son got to college,and I didn't have to meet with his teachers or go to college events, I decided to cut my hair off. Due to clipper malfunction - okay my stupidity, I ended up shaved to the scalp - not my original goal. I couldn't get the clipper guides to cut anything, so I kept switching to closer ones , still nothing. Then stopped using a blade guide, and used the blade alone. After I made a horrible mistake with the surgical blade I found out why it hadn't been cutting. It had a clear plastic blade guard on. The last time I changed blades it apparently fell off.

I was like

and

and even

. I tried to do a comb over but, that looked hideous so I bit the bullet and shaved my entire head to the scalp. Everyone hated it but, I will say it made my eyes the focal point of my face and I liked it. It upset alot of friends who thought the worst but, I always told them and even strangers I just goofed with the clippers. I wasn't trying for sympathy - I just discovered than being bald is not as bad as I thought.

My hair has been kept very short ever since and I like it. By the time I hop out of the shower my scalp is dry. I don't need a comb and hair doesn't get in my eyes. It also cuts down on wind resistance, so I think I walk faster.

P.S. I save oodles on shampoo but, always wear a wide brimmed sunhat outdoors.

I wear my hair SHORT but not that short.

More of a pixie cut. It's been that way for years and my mama hated it every time I cut it. I moved in with her for the last 5 years before her death to take care of her. I hate to go to the beauty shop and now that my daughter has a dog grooming shop I tell her to cut it for me. We did it as a joke one time and I ended up looking like Moe on the Three Stooges. With the bangs. She was horrified but I fixed it to a girl style. Next time it was almost as good as a beauty salon. But I've cut my own a lot of times. I hate to spend the money. Tight wad.

 

[drumstick diva]

Cynthia - have you taken her temperature. I believe they used to drop a degree before whelping. Walking her around on a leash might get her going. I also used to listen to their belly with the stethoscope trying to count how many pups. I was a very figgety midwife.

 

[Peep_Show]

Ah, balding.
Less hair to comb; more face to wash.

 

[vehve]

@drumstick diva Loved the wind resistance statement. I've been thinking about starting to shave my head, but I have a pretty thin neck and a large, oddly shaped head, it sort of makes me look like a skinhead when it's really short. When walking the dogs I like to wear cargo pants and combat boots in the forest, you get pretty nasty looks from people when you combine that look with a shaved head. While doing my military service I kept it at about 4mm, but I'm not a big fan of that look. It is pretty practical while showering though.

@Cynthia12 Glad to hear your sister is doing better. Hopefully she'll make a full recovery in no time.

If you're hatching out purebred dogs that you're going to sell, it might be a good idea to invest some of the upcoming profits in taking an x-ray of mama dog to see how many little tadpoles she's got in there. It's a lot of fun counting spines on those x-rays. And it's reassuring to know if there's something left there still.

 

[Lacy Blues]

I think the next level will likely be "exerts Jedi mind pressure" or Maybe: "We are the Borg, resistance is futile!"

That's a good one!!!

"He is hirsute, isn't he?"

???

 

[vehve]

Well, we now have 5 layers. Wilma, our BCM, pushed out her first today. It's bald too.