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Show us your nuts! (Nude nuts that is...)
One of the hurdles I've had throughout this journey has been to show my nude head in public. But with these hot flushes, it can be so unbearable to have anything on my head, there have been a couple of times (including one today) when I have had to just take the hat off and deploy the hand fan!
I have found it sickening to go nude in public, and yet a little bit empowering. So I'm doing it here, before you all. Here it is!
I've shown you mine. Wanna show me yours?
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You have a gorgeous nude nut...
hope this works. my nude nut for u Jo!
- I haven't started chemo yet so still have my mop. I don't have an issue being a nude nut, but I'm looking forward to having a collection of wigs in different styles. Will post my chrome dome when she develops :)
My nude is totally nude now. I got sick of the last wisps and the itch I was getting from them falling down my clothes etc, so I shaved the last little hanger-ons OFF. and am now bald and it is fine.
Went out late night shoping tonight and took my hat of when I got hot (damb hot flashes) and had not problems with it. Gets cold in the freezer section of the supermarket though <LOL> ? I always wear or at least carry a hat outside, as it is cold in canberra and I don't want to risk sunburn, but I am happy to go nude nutted, when safe from sunburn or chill.
Will post a pic when I have one. ONly shaved it tonight, so in the next couple of days when I get someone to take one for me, I will post it. Chemo on Monday! So not sure when, if I don't get it done over the weekend.
My husband sent me a picture of Mrs potato head today and told me - it was me - You can change your hair at will,or your hat (just missing the hole in the head that the hair plugs into) <LOL>. Made me laugh so hard I nearly wet myself.
Hi Mich. I've got bum fluff (on my head LOL!) My cousin is calling me Bum Fluff Head. I noticed that when the lashes started thinning, mascara was only going to make it more apparent, so started using more eye liner and particularly lining along the lid above the eye lashes. Gives you a more smoky eye and also hides the bald patches. I really started to lose the lashes and brows further in to the chemo and even after the chemo, even until very recently, I was still losing them but they've grown back so fast it's making my head spin (LOL what doesn't?)
Ha ha thanks Shaz for making me smile. Well done kiddo. I luv your sense of humour.
Mich xo
I am a bit the same,only in that I refuse to post ANYTHING on my Facebook page about my cancer, I don't want it out there on Facebook (Even though my page is private and as locked down as can be - Facebook is SO NOT secure).
I am happy for my neighbours and friends and family and strangers on the street to know, but Don't want it on Facebook - I know weird - not sure where that is coming from but that is how I feel <LOL>.
If you feel happy to do it one daythen you will and if you don't, you wont, don't stress it. It is YOUR right to tell or net tell, show or not show people the visual signs of your battle with cancer.
Especially in a small town. BUT... Trust me you wont be the talk of the town, I am sorry to say this, and wish it was otherwise, but cancer is quite common these days. Maybe people will just think you have decided to do a Sinead, after doing the purple <LOL>, and will just think you have some kind of weird hairstyling fetish <LOL>...
The hair thing is so weird. My hair on my head started falling out day 14, the free brazilian about the same time, even facial hair has thinned along with eye lashes and eye brows, underarm also went early in the piece. I had to shave my legs yesterday which I was a bit peeved abuot as that is one thing I would be happy not to have to do. It is going to be interesting to see if I lose the whole lot or not.
Bit of a running commentary happening here.
I am proud of myself for getting out there with just the bandanna but it was late in the day so not so busy but it is a start. Hopefully I will get there in the end but not yet....................:-) I think it is more that I don't want people going she must have cancer and then it becoming talk of our lil small town. I am lucky in that I don't know a great deal of people but I still panick I will run into people at the shops and stuff. Wish I could really pinpoint what my issue is and get over it!!!
Mich xo
I did that with my legs and what was left of my nether regions (which I was sick and tired of being itchy all the time, since I shave no more itch YAY!.
And I shaved my legs again the other day for the 2nd time in a month <LOL>, instead of a stubbly of about 5mm in 2 days it now takes 2 weeks to get that long 9what is left of the patchys).
