Calling all teachers

Ok! Here goes and sorry, I tagged it a teachers but any advice welcome!
I’m a stage 4 metastatic cancer fighter. I originally had breast cancer in 2016 and was then fine for awhile. My school community knew about that diagnosis as obviously I had leave whilst I had surgery, chemo and radiation and I live locally.
Fast forward to late 2018 and I was diagnosed again, this time stage 4 in bones. My hair randomly fell out last year but I managed to get a wig pretty identical to my own hair so no one knew and I could continue to fly under radar. Then covid hit anyway and I taught remotely via zoom in a beanie until nov last year. When I went back to school my hair just looked like I’d cut it short so that’s what I went with.
Now randomly my hair is falling out again! I don’t want to get another wig as hair is pretty short anyway and it’s not the look I like if you get what I mean plus due to eczema’s etc I need good quality ones and can’t justify the expense for a crap hairdo if you get my drift!!!!.
I’m happy to shave it all off again and wear scarves (once we determine it’s not salvageable which I’m assuming it’s not) but here’s where my question comes in.
For those that are teachers, what did you do? Just say to the kids, “I’m having some medicine and it’s made my hair fall out” or just wait and see what they say??? Put a note in newsletter???? I’m not in a classroom but in a specialist role now and teach prep through to grade 4.
Any advice welcome, I might just be overthinking it all but once this is out, there’s no going back.
Thanks!
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Im not a primary school teacher, I’m in ESL. But what I would do is, send a note to the parents requesting they speak to their children about it in their own way, and doing their best to make the kids understand what it is and to try and not comment on it to you. Your principal should be able to arrange that. If not, you could just explain to any kids asking that it’s the medicine, as you suggested.