Hair Loss

Hi everyone.

The first side affects of the radiation treatment have come calling.   Fatigue and nausea are still absent but some hair has begun falling out.  Radiation does not cause all of your hair to fall out as chemo does.  It is much more insidious.  It kills the hair only at the spots on your scalp where it enters the body.  One place on my head that the beam enters is my right temple.   That silver dollar sized spot is now populated only by a few rogues.  Angry hairs that never fit in and are now free to stick out in any direction they please.  Everyone else has headed out for cooler pastures.  The look is very punkish. 

My fear is that the other spots will follow.  My personal treatment requires the tumah to be baked from five different angles.   If the other four entry points go feral then I will make the official leap into the land of mange.   Unlike chemo, radiation hair loss does not typically come back.  The follicles are not sick but dead.  Woohoo!  I see several options should this come to pass. 

Shave my head and develop a taste for lollipops. 

Wear dew-rags and hats.

Let it go and begin barking at people that stare at me in public.

This is pretty tough decision.  Please send me what you think would work or let me know if you have a brilliant alternative that I have not considered.

joe

Comments

[yomamabarb]

hey, joe.....big news flash from chgogirls: my cousins, sis-inlaws,and me, of course agreed many years ago THAT BALD MEN ARE THE SEXIEST!! One cousin, carmeen, just ooooos and coooooos when she sees one. one must note also, the men in our family lose their hair in their twenties!! men don't think it's funny at all....you go, joe!! just look at david moore....gorgeous hunk..love you tons, yomamabarb

[Lisa]

You know, I've heard the spray on hair looks really natural. If that doesn't work, I sweep up about half an animal each night and as long as you don't mind a brownish, white and black do, it's all yours.