Hair Today Gone Tomorrow!

Ok so it’s been a while since I posted. Not because I’ve been ill but because I’ve been crazy busy with work. So now that my customer is Live… I can update everyone.

 So let’s start with my post chemo fun. For the most part I had no side effects. The trick is to drink TONS of water and keep food in my stomach. So I had to eat 6 meals a day. Unfortunately I’m not really thrilled with that. In any case I had 1 morning of nausea (like 10 min) and it was because I didn’t eat enough the night before.  I went in to see the doctor for a follow-up on Wednesday and they did some lab-work.  The doctor came in and said how my white blood count (WBC) was SUPER low. It’s supposed to be 1500 and it was 220. She’s like ohh are you tired? I was like umm not more than usual. So then she said I had to get a shot today and tomorrow to get my body to produce more WBC’s. The thing about this shot is it causes bone pain. Not like joint pain but BONE pain. I got the shot on Wednesday and had no issues. Then on Thursday about 2 hours after the shot I stated being in pain. Within an hour it was pretty bad. I remembered that ladies on the discussion board said Claritin helped. Nadia was out at church so she got some on her way home. I was a bit sore the next day but the pain went away.

One of the things that I’ve obsessed about has been my hair. Not because I was sad about losing my hair….But because I’m literally just sitting and waiting for it to fall out. So on Monday May 7^th I asked my sister to cut it off. I HATED waiting every day for it to fall out. I can be a control freak at times so I wanted to do it on my timetable. We left about a half inch all around. This Monday the hair that was left started falling out. Not a lot, but enough. So I called up my friend, who I already drafted to shave my head, and said it’s time let’s do this! There were no tears and it was smooth sailing. I do have some wigs from when Nadia had to shave her had after her surgery. So I wore them last week to get used to it. Below are some pictures.

After the clippers made it's first pass:

Clean shave! No hair...

Wig #1

Wig #2