All
I’ll second Kelly’s last sentence about hair. It was heartbreaking every time a load came out so getting rid was actually just a wee bit liberating and it DID start to grow before Tax ended.
All the best
D
Thanks All,
I took the plunge & phoned hairdresser mate last night, she is coming out today! Bit worried but as u all rightly said finding clumps of hair everywhere is driving me mad.
I dont think that there are any loca counelling groups for this sort thing, mt head does fell messed up some days. It is still sinking in - cant believe it has only been 7 weeks.! I think the waiting and the let downs are the worst - wednesday was the pits when I was told the I chemo was postponed till next week. I hope that this is not going to be a regular pattern…
Sending hugs & thanks.
xxxx
Mel
Hi Mel
So we are both going for it today then. Mine is at 5pm, wot time is yours? Will be thinking of you. Lets hope neither of us spills too many tears. Wore my wigs hair net last night, which kept most of my pillow, and only had too sort out the net and then when I combed it. Not been washed for 3 days, can’t remember when I last never washed my hair for that long, prob. when I was bout 6. Feels yuk, but actually looks ok.
Hope you are OK today and that everyone else is feeling ok too. Gotta go, as 9 month old Jack bashing my keyboard, and making me mistype.
Catch up later.
Love
Dawn
x
Hi Dawn
Washed mine last night - first time in 3 days also. I have now got bare patches! So I am have not really got any chose now.
my appointment is at 5.30. I dont think I got any tears left! My scalp is sort of tingly & sore. So I hope she is going to be gentle…
Hope you are still feeling ok and that he hot cheeks are calming down.
Chat to you later
Take Care
Mel
xx
Oh Mel, sorry about your bald patches. I don’t have them yet, but reckon if washed my hair prob.would. Think it is the best thing for both of us actually, get over this hurdle and move on, least then don’t have to worry about it and keep picking hairs up. Reckon the house has got a covering of my hair all over. My scalp is feeling pretty sore and stuff, but don’t really touch it anymore, trying to ignore it I think.
Cheeks gone down I think today. Had my anti sickness tabs and started my other prevention ones too, so hopefully won’t get any sickness.
Hope you are feeling ok today though and not still too upset about Thursday. Lets hope all is ok for next week, which I am sure it will be, and you can get back to some sort of nomality if that is what we can call it.
Hope you have lots planned for your weekend. Not sure what we are up to yet. OH muttered about going away, but don’t think i can be bothered, so much hastle with Jacks bottles etc, so might leave for a few more weeks.
Take care anyway.
Love
Dawn
x
Good Luck Mel and Dawn,
Please let us know how it feels as I am sure I am about a week behind you and with the amount that has started coming out will be plucking up the courage to join you soon.
Kim x
Hi Girls,
Good Luck to you both, I am in the same boat. My OH says he will do it when I am ready. Think I will have to go for it over the weekend, its driving me mad, everywhere you look there is hair, and wooden floors really dont help! Seem to spend all day long with the sweeping brush in my hand. We are having a relative for the weekend so just got a hairnet to wear, as I am doing a buffet, ham sandwiches and chunks of hair are so not appealing!!! We will get through it girls, try and keep smiling.
Love to you all
Jillianxx
Good luck today Mel. It’s heartbreaking but you will find it strangely liberating as the others say.
And the good thing is it will grow back, beautiful brand new hair!
Cecelia. x
Hi all
Ive done it. I have shaved all my hair off! its all gone! It is about a mm all over!
I feel so MUCH better…
I hope you are all ok.
I hope feel ok Dawn…
TAKE CARE
LOVE
MEL
XXX
Well Done Mel, have been follwing you and dawn as i thinks i am getting to that stage soon…
Like I said to dawn, its sad in one respect but better now its done so you can move forward…
Well Done Mel!
Love Lynne.x
Hi girls… I am getting there as we speak… today it has really started to come off, not yet in big chunks, but if I shake my head I have tons coming off… sigh. I am resigned to loose it, but it really sucks. I am by myself tonight, I think I’ll watch movies and drink wine.
Some days it feels this thing has robbed me of everything I wanted and that made my life worth living - forget dating, forget a new life, forget new babies, forget my career, forget expatriation, forget travelling, forget buying a house. I sit here with a huge scare and a soon-to-be bald head, looking forward my next chemo session. In 6 weeks, I went from being a young lady, to being an old one in menopause… and my ex is dating a blonde bimbo, just bough a house and is planning a second family.
Lilith
I hope you are ok and you may be alone with a glass of wine but you have friends on here.
Please dont forget your dreams, your passsion, your future. You will get to do all these things it just means not now. It did not take me long to get used to the new bald me! in fact I secretly like it!! I wish I could give you a hug and tell that this is just a short blip, that its nothing that we have done wrong it just is!
It is scarey and thats coming from the biggest wimp ever. But it will make us stronger. Just think of all the hunks that you an chase after when its over…
I only found out 7 wks ago & I cant believe how quick that has gone.
Sending you a huge cyber hug
XX
Mel
XX
Thanks for your lifting words, Mel… I guess we found out at the same time approx… for me it was during the first week of july, then op the 11th… and here I am in Chemo. I know it all shall pass quite quickly, by Christmas it should be over (then will be Tamoxifen and Herceptin, woohoo, but I consider that an on-going treatment, very different). Mostly I am very positive, but sometimes it just gets to me.
I guess I will just have to find new dreams…
Hi Mel,
I can’t believe how brave you are. Well done, it is more than I have done, I cannot bring myself to do the hair thing. I am so glad you are feeling better.
Some days are harder than others, I feel grateful that I have the support of all the ladies on this site, it is such an inspiration - hope you find that too.
Thinking of you and keeping fingers crossed for this week, sending lol,
Tracy xxx
Hi All
Feeling ok. no probs. but am worried as the last couple of days I have felt more drained and get tired quicker… I pray that the chemo is not delayed again…
People keep tellin me to drink guiness - any excuse lol…
As for the hair thing I am havin more fun watching other peoples reactions!!! and trying not to snap back with some of the obvious annoying coments - Its only hair! It will grow back! Look at Brittany! (that one makes me laugh!!!)
Lilith - you better find them dreams!!! I hope you are feeling ok.
sending cyber hugs & gigles to all.
TC
TTFN
Mel
xxx
Mel: lets look for these dreams… that what keeps me going.
I am doing much better - yep it is only HAIR. It got me thinking about how funny it is that we want hair so much on the head, yet we epilate everywhere else… pfff. Anyway, it is coming off so much now, tomorrow after my chemo (morning) I plan to stop by the store and buy one of those cut-it-short widgets. then, with hair long a few mm, I’ll be able to put on my wig… 
or decide not to wear it…
You are very brave. I hope your blood count will be brilliant. Go for the guinness… or for some good red one, they say it is good for the blood… and if not for the blood, I say it is good for the soul.
Hugs! Lil