Hair, Hair, It’s Almost Everywhere
Tomorrow, August 18th will mark exactly 3 months since I finished chemotherapy. A lot has happened since then, like my surgeries, being put into chemical menopause and starting aromatase inhibitors and starting radiation treatment. For today I’m going to focus on hair. My hair is growing in hot. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not “hot.” I’m now somewhere between G.I. Jane and a 12 year old boy in a pixie cut. I’ve bought some styling paste (circa late 90s, early 2000s) but my hair is still too short and fluffy for the paste to really have any effect. The top of my head is growing in different directions, which actually seem to correspond with the way I parted my hair before. The sides of my head are growing straight down, so there is a defined “fade” edge to the crown versus the sides. Given my new appearance, I’ve told B that I can give him a “sick fade” and to let me at him with the clippers and some scissors. He still hasn’t taken me up on the offer, but since he won’...