Hair today...gone tomorrow!
Okay, this hair thing is TRULY freaky!I have woken up looking like a delapidated dandelion who stuck a finger in am electric socket!
Hair is scattered all over my pillow, drifting to the floor and my head has large swathes of bright pink, slightly sunburned looking skin smeared between my usual silver locks. And so much hair!
If I had not been waiting for this, planning my neat little report on radiatio hair loss 101 I might have been doing a great chicken little impersonation clutching at my frothing head and whining NOOO!!!!!!!
For anyone with really long hair this could be a truly horrible moment. I look nothing like myself. the facial rounding from the steroids is at an all time high and even my throat is puffed up like a strange bullfrog on the verge of sending out the major dinner call. My profile is a plasticine blur of soggy features that do not look...finished somehow.
It really is nasty! And emminently fixable of course, cause once my sister is up and takes the photos
i will be gently polishing and clipping every last strand away, sliding in my most outrageous earrings - which will look better when the bullfrog look goes down a bit-,
I have this collection of ankle length patchwork skirts and I asked my sister to sew ribbon straps to them; turning them effectively into mid calf length dresses I can drop over my head and belt, add hat, sandals and light jacket and I am a garden party girl. The key is comfort and simplicity for me.
Well, actually right now the black hole where I keep my stomach is stirring so needs must find food...
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When your hair grows back, I wonder what color it will be?
I remember my son on steriods after he was born and still in the hospital.
He looked like he had little chipmunk cheeks
Rock On, D.!!!
Remember reading your beautiful poetry, still evoking cottonball clouds in my blue sky mind.
I've crushed on so many hairfree women, the alien beauty on the very 1st classic star trek movie... Sinade, Annie Lennox-(well, very short hair any way, bright orange, white, didn't matter to me).
I believe that your beautiful mind is a powerful healing force
Ken
A few weeks ago, Robin Roberts from "Good Morning, America" lost her hair to radiation & chemo. After a bit, she decided to appear on camera sans wig, and she looks fantastic!! I think her decision was both brave and selfless, and I personally believe she became even more lovely that day, letting her inner beauty shine along with her physical beauty.
Have a wonderful day and beautiful weekend, D. Continue taking good care of yourself!
Hugs and prayers,
-J
Thank you all for your prayers and encouragement.
I am now smoothly bald, bearing a strong round faced resemblane to the Dalai Lama according to my mum!
Thanks for replying to my question about the costs of healthcare, btw, honey. Don't think I'm not with you even if I don't comment every day...
Love,
Jeff