Won the wrong lottery

Hi, 1 in 8 and I wouldn’t win Tatts but I’ve won an early diagnosis triple positive gremlin. Surgery was a little over 3 weeks ago. Clear Margins and negative in the sentinel nodes - another win 🙂
I had an appointment with the radio guru today who says 4 weeks of treatment after my chemo. So that will be a few months away - the height is summer. Does that affect discomfort? He a
so mentioned something about large, droopy breasts and a skin fold issue under the breast? I’ll talk to my McGrath Magician about that.
Chemo Guru appt is next week. This is the scary one for me. Everything so far I’ve rolled with but I have waist length hair, I’ve always had long thick hair. I have never found a hat that fits and looks good and I look stupid in beanies. So I’m hitting a wall pretty hard on losing my hair.
I guess that’s enough about me for now. Cheers.
I had an appointment with the radio guru today who says 4 weeks of treatment after my chemo. So that will be a few months away - the height is summer. Does that affect discomfort? He a
so mentioned something about large, droopy breasts and a skin fold issue under the breast? I’ll talk to my McGrath Magician about that.
Chemo Guru appt is next week. This is the scary one for me. Everything so far I’ve rolled with but I have waist length hair, I’ve always had long thick hair. I have never found a hat that fits and looks good and I look stupid in beanies. So I’m hitting a wall pretty hard on losing my hair.
I guess that’s enough about me for now. Cheers.
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I was dreading the hat and beanie thing too as I always looked silly when I had hair but surprisingly they looked okay. You could also look at a wig. Many areas have free wig services for cancer patients.
I ended up with soft chemo caps in summer, beanies in winter and scarves once it warmed up again. The tied scarf sort of felt like having hair. Lots of ideas how to tie on Google.
Lots of people who haven't been through chemo say 'its only hair' True statement and it's easy to be sanguine unless it's yours that is going to fall out.
Being bald ain't my preferred state, but I've done it twice now--both times losing waist length--and it hasn't killed me. And I guess that's what it comes down to; hair or potentially life saving treatment. Cold caps weren't an option and I'm not sure I'd have bothered even if they had been available. It suited me better to just own it and get on with it. But then, I am a bloody minded old battleaxe at times.
Regarding the potential rads burns. There is absolutely no guarantees either way what will happen until you finish and I don't know that summer will make much difference to the level of discomfort. If you do get burns they won't last for long anyway.
PS, wigs are fun if it's not too hot to wear them and there is some satisfaction in realising that if men can do bald, we can too. Mxx
God only made so many perfect heads, the others are covered in hair. 😁
The biggest thing for me has been watching my eyebrows and eyelashes fall out even 6 weeks after chemo has finished! I have never been good at makeup anyway so trying to disguise that is much harder than wearing a cap.
Im just finishing radiation now but have had a mastectomy with no recon, so there's nothing there breast wise to rub, but its chaffing just from exercising with a crop top. They have lots of different creams they can give you and if you suffer burns/skin breakdown the nurses can re-dress your breast everyday if need be.
Keep asking questions, good luck