Hair Again

This is the blog entry I was making notes about when I started having a reaction to the Taxol.

Hair is a fascinating thing.

It's really just dead cells growing together out the top of our heads. However, there are careers made just out of cutting, coloring, styling, perming, waving, braiding, extending, and tinseling it. My daughter pointed out there are entire aisles in stores dedicated to just washing it!...and whole schools just to learn how to cut it. And these graduates can make a decent living doing just that.

Hair has many uses. First to cover the top of our heads (most of us) but it can be used to camouflage a blemish, cover pointy, big or sticky-out ears (mine are pointy), you can look like a hot mess or a just a mess. It can help you flirt, with that hair toss. If you want to change your look, your hair is the first thing you change. Cut or color or style.

Your hair will help contour your face or help balance your head. Pick up any fashion magazine and there will be an article on how to wear your hair to compliment your face shape. Square jaw? Hair should be longer than your chin. Heart shaped face? Hair should end at your jaw line to balance the width of your forehead.

So when you start losing it from the results of chemotherapy it's a hard thing to take. For some reason most patients I spoke with hoped that they'd be the one whose hair DIDN'T fall out. Me included. It took a while but when it went, it WENT. And like my friend Kellie said, "It's easier to shave it, than to watch it fall out"

When I was little (4-8 years old) I wanted long, long hair. All the way down my back. It never grew that long. So I would take small baby blankets that have the corner capped off and put them on my head and pretend it was my "down hair". As Damon shaved the last of my hair off he said, "You can always wear that baby blanket for your down hair."

He can make me laugh at the worst moments!

Keep the Faith