I do some grant writing for the local Area Agency on Aging, and since I am 82, I have asked that the staff fro the CEO on down do not refer to us as elderly. Call us seniors, or older people, whatever. But not the elderly, please. It is pejorative.
Back to hair. Mine was coming out by the could after my colostomy in March, and it went from straight as a pin to curly and was fragile. I stopped coloring it for a few months because I didn’t want to damage it, and I started using a biotin shampoo and taking a biotin tablet every day. I had my hip replaced a week ago and I was concerned that I might have some hair loss again. I even spoke with the anesthesiologist about it, and she said she had never heard of anesthesia being a cause of the problem. My hairdresser said she had seen this before many times in patients experiencing major surgery, and that it is definitely caused by stress on the body and mind. Makes sense to me.
Anyway, so far so good with the hip surgery, although the pain this past week was greater than I had been led to believe by everyone I had talked to. My surgeon said that mine was an extreme case of bone on bone—one of the worse he had ever seen, so that was probably why the pain was so awful. And my hair seems to be okay—and it is definitely growing back enough so that I will need a haircut in a couple of weeks
My ostomy has been cooking along throughout this whole thing. I have discovered that I like disposable pouches, so that is what I have been using. The pain meds have made my stools very hard—they are like pebbles you could skip across a pond. But I am weening off the drugs, so should be back to normal soon. So that’s it. Pain is decreasing and the hip surgery was a success ( saw the X-ray of the “after”, my hair is growing back, and don’t call me elderly🤗