My hair has gone - boo hoo

Hi CherylD

I must admit, I quite like just wearing the scarves and hat to at the moment. Wig is only for going out, as I have a wedding to go to in June  (fingers crossed I am not sick).

Yes, starting to lose it from all placed. Not yet the eyebrows or eyelashes. I hope I don't lose them though.

Take care and regards

Julie XX

I loved being bald, made me feel so much more powerful and the scarves and hats are great, couldn't go near a wig as the hot flashes and red face made me so damn hot!

Hair started growing back 6 weeks after last chemo, made me a little sad quite honestly but now I have a soft down about 1 inch long.

By the way the hair goes from everywhere and eyelashes and eyebrows go last, usually after your last treatment sadly.

Regards

Cheryl

I loved being bald, made me feel so much more powerful and the scarves and hats are great, couldn't go near a wig as the hot flashes and red face made me so damn hot!

Hair started growing back 6 weeks after last chemo, made me a little sad quite honestly but now I have a soft down about 1 inch long.

By the way the hair goes from everywhere and eyelashes and eyebrows go last, usually after your last treatment sadly.

Regards

Cheryl

Hi Shazinoz

So there girlfriend, I laughed at your blog. I know exactly what you mean with the hair on the body disappearing. Yes me to, the eyelashes and eyebrows are still there as well as the hair on the arms. Not sure if they disappear......

Yes, no more shaving, shampoo, conditioner, hairdrying , styling and now the quick showers. YIPEE. I didnt feel like I had a proper shower this morning, as there was no hair to wash.

At the moment I am wearing the hats,  just can't get the wig routine happening yet. I don't feel embarrassed to wear the hat and the turbans. Yes, my first night being a "nude nut" was cold and had to sleep with a merino beanie. My head thought it was heaven.

Take care and hugs to you. Keep warm......

Love JulieXX

Hi Michelle

Hope you are well, and I do hope your Mothers Day lunch is beautiful and lovely.

Hope your chemo is going well, and you don't feel too sick after it. I felt pretty yuck about 2 hours after my chemo had finished, then for about  6 days. But otherwise it was bearable. I took all the medication that my oncologist gave me.After about the sixth day, I felt much better.

At the moment am going to work for about  5 hours and enjoying it.

I had to shave my hair off yesterday, as it felt dead and started to clump out. So I cried abit, as it then hit me that I have cancer. But now I am over it, and looking ahead.

Bug hugs to you and you too keep smiling. Have a great Mothers Day and will be thinking of you on the day

Love Julie XX

Hi Leonie

Yes, I have a few hats to wear. But it's always an excuse to go shopping, now I have a perfectly good excuse to.

I found out last night that my head was really cold. So I had a beautiful Merino beanie a work friend gave me, and my head thought it was heaven.  Love to you XX

I shave the last little whisps of mine off today, i got a number 2 (8mm) crew cut when it first started to fall, out and then it sort of hung on and began falling out again about week 2 after cycle 2, and i got SICK of it. So I gave it a number 1 and then got at it with the electric razor and shaved it all off (I was sick and tired of little hairs everywhere, and the horrible feeling on my head when the heair rubbed the wrong way in my hat (that feeling you get when you leg hair etc grows back to stubble and it gets rubbed the wrong way by your socks or clothes - YUCK - and having that all over my head was driving e nuts). Sure I probably haven;t got them all, Will have to get hubby to give it a going over tonight, but I am happy.

I am not going the wig route, and will stick with hats and being bald (hats for the most part as Canberra is COLD in winter (had numerous below zero nights already (thank goodness for cotton sleep caps), and I have NO issues with being seen with a bald head)).

Sorry to hear you have lost your hair, but you let it go on your terms. You have your wig now and you are NOT alone.

Stay well, stay happy, and enjoy the ease of showering now with no body hair (? I got the chemo brazilian first, then arm pits, then the head hair began, then the leg hair (all gone) - still have most of my eyelashes and eyebrows so far, and my arm hair, sill seems all there). Showing now is SO quick, not much to do in there anymore <LOL>.

of all the lovely headgear that you will be able to wear over winter.  This time last year I was baldy and loving my hats.  I am even going to drag some out this winter. XLeonie

of all the lovely headgear that you will be able to wear over winter.  This time last year I was baldy and loving my hats.  I am even going to drag some out this winter. XLeonie