Hair Regrowth Status Report

I hate to complain about my hair because, dude! I have hair that I didn’t buy out of a catalog!! But it’s really frustrating. It’s frustrating because it’s curly, but also short (haha, my short and curly hair has me by the short and curlies; I am 12). and nothing can be done with it.

Tom said the other day that my hair looks like his grandmother’s before she goes to her weekly beauty salon appointment. Sad, but true.

ANYHOW. I got a book the other day for Curly-Haired Girls but it’s mostly for curlygirls with LONG hair, not Little Orphan Annie type crazy short curls, so, bah. That’s no help. In the end, I wrap a lot of scarves around my hair (like headbands). Tom says it looks very much like me. which is good, as it IS me. I keep talking about going to my hairdresser and having her do something to it, but then I think what if she doesn’t know how to cut curly hair and I end up back with the Cancer Patient Look again? So maybe I should just let it grow on its own.

Ides of May Update

Y’all would not believe how much my hair is growing. And of course we cannot get over that it’s coming back in CURLY. Curly and out-of-control! And, my favorite bit is that a few weeks ago, I was talking to some other moms in a playgroup we recently joined, and said something about my nutty post-chemo crazy hair, and they were all surprised to hear I’d had chemo and that it was new hair. It took me a little bit to realize that this means that people no longer take a quick look at me and immediately peg me as a cancer patient. I’m VERY excited about this.

In other news, it’s Race for the Cure season again. Several friends have walked or run in their local Races and college roommate Erin will be walking the Avon 3-Day walk in Boston for me again this year, this time with her husband. They’ve raised a ton of money for breast cancer research, and I’m very grateful and appreciative of all of their hard work. Hope it’s a great weekend, Erin and Jon!

Lastly, we received very sad news recently when a good friend lost her battle with ovarian cancer. I spoke of her here just about a year ago when I posted about my anger and sadness over the news of a friend’s recurrence of cancer. She was about my age and was tremendously supportive and helpful to me in the early days of my diagnosis. It is a terrible loss. She was a wonderful person. Please keep her family in your thoughts and prayers, if you would.