We have totally laughed because the Day 10-14 from my first Chemo (that's the "normal" time frame for Chemo patients hair to fall out), has come and gone. In fact, I have had my 2nd Chemo treatment already, teased the doctor about it and was even growing hair back. How crazy is that???
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Around Day 26 (from my 1st Chemo) I started to notice a one tiny little patch on the side of my head that was beginning to fall out. Kinda silly!
Over the next couple days, the sides began to thin but only if I wiped them off with my face cleaning pads. You couldn't really even notice except it was starting to be buggy. All those little hairs falling on my neck and face were very itchy!!!! I have way more sympathy now for all those times Justice fought me cutting his hair cuz all the little hairs were bugging him. Amen, Buddy!
I had heard that you should use a warm washcloth and wipe it off as it started coming out in order to get rid of it. So, I think it was on Day 28 that I took a shower with my washcloth for the purpose of trying to rid myself of all this hair. Let's just say- GROSS! Every time I wiped more would come out. The entire bottom rim of the tub was filled with tiny black hairs. Kucka! And it didn't even look like I had taken out any. I'm always telling people I have tons of hair but no one believes me! LOL Can you imagine if I had had my 12" of long, blonde hair. So disgusting! Well I finally gave up. I rinsed off all the hair from my body and from the tub. Then, I very careful got out, dried off everything but my head, put on a robe and stood outside leaning forward while Brett dried my head. Tons more hair came out. I ended up just sticking on my night cap so it wouldn't shed all over the place. I wore a cap or a wig for the next couple days and tried to ignore it. But then it was just too buggy.
On Day 30, not much hair was coming off onto my washcloth but, I was able to get out tons of strands of hair by simply pulling on them. They just came right out. No pain or anything- just grossness! ;) I finally went to my dear hubby to help me out. We were trying to decide how the heck we could get rid of the rest when he suggested packing tape. Tape my head? OK, Why not??? So, Brett grabbed the roll of packing tape and helped me tape off my hair. It was pretty funny! Shauna and Liberty thought it was icky. Every time Brett pulled off a new strip of tape- it was covered with hair. We laughed at the skunk stripe/reverse mohawk he gave me down the back. Too funny! After probably 50 or more times all that was left was a thin layer of blonde peach fuss. How did that happen? Where was that hiding? Shauna said it looked like a halo. Ahhhhh!
On Day 30, not much hair was coming off onto my washcloth but, I was able to get out tons of strands of hair by simply pulling on them. They just came right out. No pain or anything- just grossness! ;) I finally went to my dear hubby to help me out. We were trying to decide how the heck we could get rid of the rest when he suggested packing tape. Tape my head? OK, Why not??? So, Brett grabbed the roll of packing tape and helped me tape off my hair. It was pretty funny! Shauna and Liberty thought it was icky. Every time Brett pulled off a new strip of tape- it was covered with hair. We laughed at the skunk stripe/reverse mohawk he gave me down the back. Too funny! After probably 50 or more times all that was left was a thin layer of blonde peach fuss. How did that happen? Where was that hiding? Shauna said it looked like a halo. Ahhhhh!
By the next day, I had to shave the peach fuss off. It was too weird and there was still a couple dark hairs left! So let the record show that on Day 31, I finally became Follicly Challenged! Nothing like me making up my own time schedule. At least we didn't shave my head in vain. LOL Here's the end result:
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