Bright, you’re doing really well with cold cap, don’t give up now, soulds like it really is working for you and part or me wishes that i’d given it a go, but i had a headache from hell when i went in for the first chemo, that i could not have been able to bear it, I was so hysterical on that 1st day anyway that it seemed it was just going to add to the trauma. Now I’m hysterical about starting TAX on monday. Got a lovely weekend planned and I’m carrying on as if I’ll not be able to function at all after Monday for the forseeable future! Hysterical again!
Blimey Caron, diamond encrusted bracelet if you please!! Yes I like the name Betty, she looks like a Betty, definately.
Well I have just had the most fabulous day ever! You know how I have complete meltdown about my hair loss, it sounds so vain I know, but to me. I really do think it’s been the hardest thing of this whole sorry mess to deal with!
Well, when I had my last chemo 3 weeks ago, I bumped into a fiend of mine, one of school mum’s, who is 3 years post BC, she was there for check up post recon surgery. She asked me if I would like to go to a meeting with her the following evening, and that i might find it interesting as Trevor Sorbie, celeb hairdreser, was giving a talk about coping with hair loss and that there would be cancer specialists there talking about it and that it was mainly for hairdressers, to encourage people to be trained up by Trevor to be able to cut wigs. Lots of hairdressers are loathed to do it because they cost so much money and obviously, once cut won’t grow back etc etc!!!
Well anyway there was a very beautiful brave girl there who was going through chemo and Trevor used her as a model to show how a wig could look, once cut properly and I swear it looked truly amazing and you would never know it was a wig. So they passed a microphone around to the audience for questions to Trevor and I managed to tell him my experience of the hairdresser at my hospital and how rubbish i felt my wig looked and how i’d unfortunately turned into a bit of a recluse because I just didn’t want to be seen in my wig or headscarves, because I hate looking like a victim and can’t bloody stand that awful sympathetic look you get from people when you wear a headscarf. As i was talking on the microphone, I burst into tears. how embarrassing!!! Well Trevor said come and see me after for a chat!
Cut a very long story short, that wonderful man has a 3-4 month waiting list for wig customising and he very kindly squeezed me in for a 3 hour appointment today!! I met him at his salon in Covent Garden and we got a black cab over to Kensington where he helped me choose a real hair wig then cabbed it back to covent garden where he then spent ages with me cutting and styling the wig and I have to say has not only made me look a million dollers but more importantly made me feel normal and dare i say, fit and well again. He truly is an amazing and wonderful individual and I will never forget the lovely day that i have had today. It’s completely non profit making as he is so passionate about the importance of looking good whilst going thru chemo, and how he has seen women who he believes recover better and quicker purely because they feel better about themselves!
My lovely husband, obviously impressed by the new me, then took me for a lovely lunch and then we hit the shops for the rest of the day and he treated me to a few new things for my wardrobe albeit, a little depressingly, a size bigger than I’m used to due to steroid indused piggyness!!!
I’ve had such a wonderful day and then out tomorrow evening for a valentines dinner, that i almost feel invicable and maybe even able to cope with new TAX on Mon!
Bring it on!
Take Care Ladies!
Jo x