Hi
I had my second lot of chemo on Friday
Epirubicin and Cyclophosphamide
this morning washed my hair and it just came away in clumps so got the scissors out and cut it then hubby shaved it for me
Had a few tears both of us but I was prepared and bought my wig a few weeks back along with turbins and scarfes so I can continue my journey and wait for my hair to grow back again
day by day we go ? 
I still remember the day I shaved my head, to be more in control of the loss. If it helps, I find it makes for a great story - regularly shock the hairdresser with the comment about “the time I shaved my head” 
Hi Elizabeth
There is a positive element to this. When your hair starts growing back, about two weeks after your last treatment cycle, it feels amazing. It will be soft and wavy. I couldn’t stop stroking my head. It felt like a puppy! It may be curly but usually that goes.
Don’t forget sleep caps. It can feel very cold in the middle of the night.
Wishing you all the best with your treatment,
Jan x
Hi mbElizabeth,
What a lovely photo of you on your profile .
I always take my bra off (more relevant, as opposed to hat!) to you chemo girls. What you have to go through, as I didn’t have chemo with either of mine back in 2006 and 07. So forgive me popping on here, and also my sometimes “passionate”, but genuinely felt wordings!
A few years before my own BC experiences, when one of my regular patients came in, she was sporting a lovely new hairstyle, and I couldn’t help saying “Wow, Mrs ****, I love your hair, you look fantastic!!” I was understandably surprised when told me it was a wig! (I obviously had NO idea - it looked so “real” ). And then proceeded to tell me that she’d been having chemo for BC. Umph - what a shock! But . . . despite all of it, She looked bloomin GREAT!!
But equally, a few weeks ago, I was walking out of John Lewis, and a lady and husband/partner were walking in. She had a couple of millimetres of hair. I couldn’t help myself, but stop and chat. Said “Forgive me being forward, but d’you know what, you look fantastic with your hair like that”! And I meant it. Stood and had just a five minute chat. I asked if I could presume she was having chemo, which it turned out she was (phew, for my presumption!), for Endometrial cancer. Mentioned that I been through BC twice, hadn’t required chemo, but was very aware of how TOUGH it must be, from my reading posts on here from women having to go through it. She was really chuffed at my stopping and my sincere compliment. Said that often people “avoid you”, are too embarrassed to approach or speak to you. And that what she was MOST pleased that her eyelashes and eyebrows were growing back at last. Ohhhh, what?!
Unfortunately, it’s a more common thing to see these days, but that people still often “shy away” from it. It’s the same with disabled people in wheelchairs, or homeless people sitting in a doorway, and such. I often have a chat with them. I’m not wishing to sound or seem at all arrogant, or blowing my own trumpet. Maybe I’m just more open, or brazen? But I think it’s more due to a deeper “compassion” towards people in general, that my own BC experience has left me with. One of the GOOD things it has given me, out of the bad
I hate to use the word “badge”, with regards to having no hair, because it could be taken as me being condescending. But I am NOT in ANY WAY wishing to be. To me, it means that you’re going through a lot of tough S**T, and are women who are “fighting” . I reeally do applaud you ALL.
So, Yeh, bra and hat off to you all. Hope you, mbElizabeth, and everyone else can just keep kicking that BC in the BUTT - YEH? and YEY!!!
Sending you, and everyone else, Lots of Love and Hugs, from a huge admirer,
DellyWellyDooDaah xXXx
Ps - Sinead O’Connor “chose” to shave her head, back in the 80’s 
(or was it 90’s?) - an unforgettable look!