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Hi all, just want to add my experience with chemo and hair. I did chemo in the fall of 2018. Believe or not, I miss the days when I lost my hair or was bald 👩🦲.
I could shower and do my make up in 20 minutes, no bad hair days!! I bought the most colorful and fun bandanas for $1 at Hobby Lobby. I had lost my straight naturally blonde hair and my eyelashes and eyebrows, but I made it through chemo and 35 radiation treatments (with peach fuzz) and that was the most important thing. My hair grew back extremely curly and grey but it did grow back. Almost six years and many haircuts later, I still have the curls, the texture has changed, but I’m still here 5 years cancer free. To make a long story short, you are NOT your hair, you’re very strong women going through a journey. Have fun with wigs, hats, scarves or nothing at all but don’t forget to celebrate the strong women you are. All the best 🙂
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Great post! Thank you!
I have actually been very scientific about my hair or at least I was going to call myself. I did not shave it so that I could see how long it would take for it to all fall out. It was somewhere between the 4th and 5th treatment when I noticed that my eyebrows were gone and my eyelashes were gone. And I still had struggling hair until after the sixth treatment. Then 4 weeks after my last therapy session I could feel hair coming out of my head. It was barely visible. Within 3 days I could see it. I thought it was going to be white but now we are nearly 3 months out. It's somewhere between an 8th and 1/4 in Long. It's fawn color is too short to know if it's curly. It's full. Every part of my head has hair, even the temples. My eyebrows came back within weeks. It made it so that I couldn't wear my tattoo stickers of eyebrows anymore. And as of this week, I feel my eyelashes are long enough that I no longer want to wear false eyelashes. Mascara does a great job making my natural eyelashes look great.
I'm thinking about my exit plan for when I stop wearing the wigs. I used to wear my hair very short almost all my life. It's only been in the last 6 or 7 years that I've worn it shoulder length. So I'm trying to be patient and not look at hairstyle shit because there really nothing there to style. But I have a great hairdresser who's been with me through this entire process. She's She went with me to pick out my wigs. She cut them for me. We've gone out to eat because we don't get to see each other anymore. I can't wait to get back to the beauty shop color my hair and have it styled. I love messing with my hair. I don't have great hair. I'm just really good at taking care of it