Observations on Losing Hair

Here's a few observations being 4 weeks into it you won’t read in any book:

- When it starts to go, it goes fast! I couldn't cut it all off without proof that it was going to fall out. The nurses warned me that it would go quickly, and it may be traumatic if I didn't bite the bullet and cut it before then - I didn't listen. It fell out for about 2 weeks before I cut it; that was about 1 week too long! If you are a "freaker outer" cut it on the 4th or 5th day your follicles start jumping ship. You'll have enough proof that they're mutinying without having to watch the ship sink.

- Don't shave your head completely. Get a hair dresser to cut it into some kind of pixie cut first keeping length on top or around your face because you may not go bald for awhile or at all. Short cuts can do thinning hair, I've rocked it for about 3 weeks and just went shorter last week... and now it seems to have stopped falling out. yay!

- Nothing screams cancer patient like a scarf or turban on a young chick; just live your truth or wig out.

- Wear bigger earrings and more eye make-up, you wont look over done. I've had to kick it up a notch and sport my evening looks during the day. In photo's coming back to me I found I looked really pale and naked with such little hair to draw attention to my face. I started using my former hair-styling time in the morning to Tammy-Faye the eyes and I look alive again.

- My armpit hair has stopped growing - yay:) Don't ask about the bikini... why god!?

- You may look like a stereotypical lesbian, a really cute lesbian, but one none the less. Here I was all worried no one would hit on me at the bars anymore:) If you're not gay, thank the ladies and what the heck, let them buy you a drink! Years from now you and your loved ones can fondly refer back this time as that year you were "experimenting" (with the hair lol), rather than that time you had Hodgkin's!