jd48
10 years agoMember
AC Chemo - Day 3
Happy to say day 3 went by very well with no surprising side effects.
Well, I did learn that bacteria overgrowth is happening already and that I was being slack with mouth hygiene so that is now a ...
Thank you for the advice Mirvine ?
The lady demonstrating wigs gave us a talk about them and the products and care and such which frankly just alienated me completely. So much so i was the only one there that had no desire to try any of the wigs on.
All I do with my hair is wash and towel dry as is and use no products. Always been too much of a tomboy I guess and never been able to get out of bed early enough to do my hair or make up.
Itchy scalp is slowly driving me nuts but I am still resisting the urge to scratch as been warned in the workshop that may cause infections so counting the minutes until I can chop it off on Tuesday. I reckon it will be nice and cool after that. Not that my hair is long now - I cut is earlier in the year but it is super thick and impossible to feel cool with it as is.
I did not try cool caps as Oncologist said there is no way of avoiding loosing hair on AC Chemo so decided to do away with it ASAP as waiting to find clumps of broken off hair would drive me nuts.
My whole life I whinged about thick hair being a curse and how I would prefer it was thin. Now that I am about to experience the 'no thick hair' bit I must admit it is all a bit freaky.
Not to mention then being told by the Chemo nurse on Monday leg hair will NOT go. So we loose head hair, eyebrows, lashes, underarm and pubes but legs still require deforrestation ??
I guess the big guy 'upstairs' has a weird sense of humor ??
Jel.