Round 3 - Radiation
Finally finished my 12 rounds of taxol on the 3rd December, have my first radiation session tonight. I did really well on the taxol, minimal side effects other than fatigue. My hair even started growing back about 4 weeks into it. Strange thing is though my eyebrows and eyelashes fell out completely a few days after Xmas (about 3 weeks after my last chemo!). I was pretty surprised by this (not that you could tell by looking at me, lol no eyebrow joke) however after reading up on it this happens to a lot of women after taxol. Also discovered that they may grow back and then fall out again several times yet. My hair is about an inch long now, however very thin and very grey, (was dark brown with a bit of grey before) so dont know if this is a permanent change or not. Just starting to feel smug about being so hairy when the whole eyebrow/eyelash thing happened. That will teach me. I am trying not to worry about things that I can do nothing about, but feel very unhappy when i look in the mirror. So yes I know, stop looking! Funny thing is I never really minded when my head hair fell out, but no face hair really bothers me.