Hair is happening, though still slower on the top than on the sides and in back. I am going to go and get it shaved this week at an old-school barber, so I can start afresh and have less of the wispy chemo look of having all baby hairs. I have a goal to star going "topless" as soon as I have a nice, even GI Jane look. After shaving, I imagine that would be 2-3 weeks away, if my bald patches fill in a bit.
It's starting to get a bit warmer here, and I am always more than ready to rip my wig off as soon as I get in my car to leave work. Everyone there assures me that no one would care if I just started going wigless now, but I have a very specific criteria for that point. And it's not out of vanity either. This is a process, and I want to experience each step as it comes. I am still celebrating simply being done with the hard part. Another big milestone will be proudly sporting my short, but very evidently growing hair.
My oncologist told me that by the time the "beau's ridges" - the small indentations in my fingernails that mark, like the rings of a tree, each of my chemo infusions - grow out, I will feel pretty much back to normal. That looks like it's between 6-8 months.
It's a good reminder that it's going to take time. I am already feeling so much better - at least 90% of normal unless I'm doing some sort of exercise, when I certainly notice being stiffer and less conditioned - that it's hard not to want to rush the last little bit.
But, like my hair, I am doing my best to allow it to be a sloooow process.
"beau's ridge's" - whoa, never heard that.
ReplyDeleteNext time you are out in public, you should walk up to the first bald guy you see and say "The difference between me and you is that I make this look good". Only you could pull off the close shaved look and look great.
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