With this treatment I am going to lose all my hair. It is that kind of chemo. Most people keep their eyelashes and eyebrows, but not everybody. From what I have read, I will lose my leg hair, armpit hair, pubic hair, head hair.
I am lucky that this is not a big deal for me. 15 years ago, for fun, I shaved my head and kept it really short for over a year. I know what I look like without hair. I know what it feels like without hair. I know in my head looks like. I am not afraid of this part. I’m going to be fine.
In preparation I thought it would make it a heck of a lot easier if I shaved my hair really short before I left. I also thought it would be fun to do that with Kira while she was here over her holiday break and to dye it midnight blue. Why not? If I don’t like it it’s gonna fall out in a month anyway.
The night before Kira flew out to California, we got out the clippers, put a salon shawl around me, and went to town.
My aunt was surprised by losing her nose hair. She found that it really changed her experience of breathing and that her nose dried out. I hope you don’t find it so jarring.
Oh wow! The nose hair hadn’t occurred to me. We shall see and I will now be prepared for that if it happens