Well after a week of my hair falling out, I decided to brave the shave…
I was sick of it falling out anywhere and everywhere, blocking the plug holes and looking like there was a dead rat on my rug! So, last Friday I had it cut into a very short pixie style cut, but by Sunday there were more and more bald patches so I decided it all needed to come off. My good friend kerry did a fine job of shaving it. It took two weeks exactly from the one dose of chemo to it starting to fall out.
It is very strange to touch and feels like little prickles. When I’m sleeping it feels like I have velcro stuck to my head. And it has surprised me how much warmer you feel when you’ve got a lot of hair; I definitely need to wear a hat now to keep me warm. When I go out now I am either wearing a wig or a hat specifically designed to be soft and comfortable for this purpose. I was wearing it tonight when my brother, Rob, saw me for the first time. Sensitive as ever, he fell about laughing and told me I looked like ‘that old woman off Coronation street’ – Hilda Ogden! At least we had a laugh – after a few choice words of course!
But to be honest I prefer to wear nothing; however I do feel sorry for the people who have to look at me. It’s not a glamorous look.
I expected Archie to be a bit more curious about my shaved head. After all, he comments when I’ve had my nails painted a different colour. But the only comment he has made has been about the hat – ‘what is that on your head?’ he asked me!
Meanwhile max is none the wiser.
As for me in general no other update, I am going to sleep a bit earlier on an evening but that could just be to do with having a 6 month old who has now decided he wants to wake up through the night.
Not heard anything from the hospital about dates to start stage two so I will wait a few more days before phoning to chase that.
Short up date. Bye for now
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