Singing in the supermarket! My kids thought I was the ONLY mum awful enough to embarras them that way!!! So glad I’m not alone! They’re adults now, adn they’ve survived me! I once had to take a friend’s children with me round supermarket. Her son was being a brat, and not responding to anything. Eventually, I threatened that the “American mother” would arrive… my kids cringed… he ignored me… so in a loud, very OVER THE TOP american voice I gushed all over him “Oh sweetie pie, Mommy is SOOO proud of you… come here, let me give you a big hug honey” or something similar… worked a dream! tee hee! Jane
Harp and GIJane
Tee hee. I too took great joy in embarassing my children. A form of therapy. I had a great dying fly impression where I would lie on my back curled up and spin round and round making ZZZing noises, stop, then start again. Worked a treat. Didn’t do it in the supermarket though.
OOh really logged on to say hair is now falling like autumn leaves. Will get rid of it on Monday after family have left. A relief really.
Maybe we should all commune with Hips for the Great Shedding ceremony.
All together now, OHMMMMM
Honestly, removing it bit-by-bit was the best for me. Get the clippers out and the trauma is so much less. My grade 3 that I performed on Monday is now looking like a grade 3 on a bloke with MPB. Scalp starting to show through. It looks way better like this though than trying to keep my long hair and having patches. And the moults are far easier to tidy up. Every cloud, etc
My kids were most embarrased on World Book day when I had dressed up as the witch from Snow White. I drove them to school!! He! He! But they had the last laugh cos I had forgotten to fill up with petrol and had to do it dressed up. That was the last time I wore a wig actually…
LOL!
I am glad to see that we can still see the funny side of the things:)Definitaly feel more cheered up now. Thank you girls.
I must also say that once you had done this horrible process it makes you feel like there`s nothing else you can not do…
Love to all,
xx
Cleared my garage out today and found a Cinderella wig and a Snow White one. Don’t think I’ll be wearing them to go out in though!
do u all have perscriptions for wigs, mine from shrewsbury is called Lola they all get named and mine is so like my own hair tho i miss my hair so much tho Sinead has made an appearance tonight but my dog Zeyna does not like it, she looks at me in a funny way bless her xxx really was better once i took the plunge, much better than moulting, i was making a cheese sauce and black hair everyone, not good!!!xxx
I clipped my hair off yesterday. The clippers ran out of juice before I’d quite finished so have mohican down the back. Feel much better as the shedding was awful. It’s still shedding but not nealy as distressing now 1/2" long. I look like my youngest son. Very weird. Took Hairy Mary to LGFB yesterday but whipped her off when I was in the room and put soft hat on head. Then went out in soft hat, feeling a bit of a twit but I got over it, head held high and it really wasn’t too bad at all. One tip, I wore a long floaty scarf round my neck. Never do that normally but I felt it distracted the attention from my head and made me feel more feminine. TK Max had some really pretty ones in linen.
Yes, I wear a scarf round my neck a lot of the time - apart from anything else it makes me look a bit more feminine, which I decided I needed after being mistaken for a bloke twice!
Primark is brilliant for scarves - soooo cheap and masses of choice in every colour of the rainbow, whether you want long ones or square ones.
Jane xxx
Shar-does hair taste good in cheese sauce-you could write a recipe book. Hair pie, crumble, on toast…
My son complained when he started finding hairs in his packed lunch, so I told him to make his own. Well, he is 17! I didn’t ask him how it tasted though.
Jane xxx
Hello all,
I have resurfaced after FEC 2… nuff sed about that… Hair laugh of the day:
Don’t ask why (because I don’t know why!} but we have a curtain pole in our bedroom… and not the one on which the curtains are hanging, however, there it is, it has been there for sometime leaning against my wardrobe hardly noticed. When my wig, AKA ‘the syrup’. arrived I maneuvered the pole about 10 inches the the right and sat the syrup on it, PERFECT! OH on opening the curtains this morning knocked it off, it is ever so slightly in front of the window - not a problem we live in the sticks so noone can see- and he said “find somewhere else to put it everytime I open the curtains I knock it off” (now I would like to stress my OH is and has been fab and is looking after me and the kids great) I looked at him as he had tossed it on the bed (that he had just made) and as I put it back on its pole in front of the slightly open window I said
“You open the curtains once a day, surely it cant be that much of a problem” he was looking a little sorry then so I said " it can stay there it’s not doing you any harm" he now looks very sorry so I continued " and anyway I like it when my hair blowing in the wind!" at which point we both cracked up laughing!!! J XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
J - Tee hee.
That’s very funny J!
Mine’s falling out now but only in one patch at the mo so i look very odd!
When I worked at Disneyland I was asked to be Snow White. Well I still look as if I belong in that particular film. Only I look like Dopey now! Think they’d give me a job???
Rachel x
Scalp now clearly visible. Looking less like youngest son, more like Sinead? Strange and fascinating patterns on my head but will be very glad when it’s all gone. Annoyingly leg hair is still firmly attached and lady garden still normal. Wearing beanies and scarves rather than Hairy Mary as much more comfortable and rather alluring.
Went for a delish curry last night to celebrate step son qualifying. The doorman was in traditional dress and wearing turban hat with plume. I looked at him, he looked at me, no one said a word.
Love the glances with be-turbanned doorman!
Maybe I should get a plume?
I had to re-trim mine yesterday; I’m turning into Tufty as I have now lost so much in patches, so took it down to a grade 2.5 and it’s tidier but still itchy. Loads of scalp now showing. Tried on Spiderman buff last night but OH says I’ll scare folk if I wear it.
;0 very funny J
I have now officially shaved to ground zero twice! My head is soo smooth and shinny. Strangly very comfortable though. I had very few and I mean very very few patches the first time I shaved but now I can`t see them so I am happy about that at least. I think I am used to the bald look now, hubby says it suits me and it makes me look younger! He has been cutting his hair to grade 3 for the last few years now. He said that having short hair is soo confortable he cannot think of growing it. He even went on to say that I may even find it difficult to let it grow after chemo!
Well, at least I am going to get a chance to try out every single hair cuts I can ever dream of; starting with the shortest ones!! I shall start collecting the hair styles/cuts that I can try out once the hair starts growing:) Maybe we can start a new topic to share the short hair styles once our hair start growing:)
love to all ladies
xx
Just a note from the other end so to speak!
I had my final tax on May 4th and my hair is growing so quickly. As seems to happen to most people it started to grow before my last chemo. I’d been shaving the patches off occasionallly but stopped a couple of days before the last dose.
It isn’t really growing anywhere else as well though. Maybe a few glimmerings in the lady garden and eyebrows, but you’d have to look really close to spot them. Still no eyelashes, leg or underarm hairs.
My hair was waist length and very curly beforehand but I really liked the short cut I had before my first chemo and I very much doubt I’ll ever have it long again. Short hair is so much easier to wash and made me look much younger.
By the way, being bald also made me look younger - it’s actually very hard to judge someone’s age if they have no hair and I’ve quite enjoyed being bald - it’s strangely liberating!
Jane xxx
I have to agree with you on that Alto. I think shaving my hair was the most liberating thing I have ever done… It makes you feel like there is noting on this Earth that you cannot do and gives you a strange sense of confidence. Very weird… as before I shaved it I was soo scared about the whole process!