Before I started chemo I had my hair cut short. I was not allowed to colour it so I had to have most of the highlights cut out. The chemo I would be on for the first 4 months did not necessarily cause hair loss -- thinning -- but not full chrome dome. Once I realized how the chemo affected me physically, I decided to have it cut short as I wanted to reduce the work I needed to put into keeping it looking nice. Just before I had the high dose chemo 2 weeks ago I buzzed it off. (number 3) Total freedom! I waited for my hair to fall out...nothing...so I needed a haircut and buzzed it on Wednesday night to a number 2. Today, exactly 2 weeks from the chemo infusion, my hair has started to fall out.
Now, I have been waiting for this to happen. Looked forward to it...to the ease of getting all put together in the morning. I knew that it would come out in clumps and not all at once...but this is really starting to annoy me.
I am shedding all over...and yet when I washed my hair, it did not all come out. About once every couple of hours I take the sticky paper lint roller to it. (I can hear you laughing!) I fill up two or three sheets, then wait for more to become loose. Why doesn't it just go "sproing" and all fall out. Then you just have to sweep it up and you are done! So many aspects of cancer are just not fair!
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