Hair today, gone tomorrow

Brilliant ode, you inspired me to share and write this ditty to read when your feeling at your most shitty, I hope it makes you smile and stay as strong as you can be! Xxx

Two washes, two chemos, six weeks, my hair had gone

Twelve years of care, after growing it to waist length long

Don't worry it will grow back wasn't what I wanted to hear

Now I know why my breast cancer nurse shed that tear.

I'm bald and thankful, even though I'm crying

I know that losing my hair doesn't mean I'm dying

My hair was the weakest cell that chemo picked on

Bizarrely though it made my other cells stay strong

You took my hair and now it's payback day,

get ready breast cancer I'm coming your way

I am now a fighter and you will not get me

You took my hair and now it's war you see!

My feelings exactly! Well put,Marie.

Hello Womblingfree,

Thanks for sharing your poem too - love your fighting spirit! I'm entering mine into a competition which closes in August so fingers crossed!

Xxx

After 2 sessions of chemo and using the cold cap which is like wearing a freezing swimming cap my hair was falling out so much so today I took the step and had it all shaved off. Please keep up the dittos, made me smile today. Stay strong xx

Not trying to make light of this, but you have to keep things upbeat sometimes.

This is old one that was posted a few years back now - reworked Pam Ayres classic

G n' J

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They were prodded and poked positioned and squashed

A mammogram taken and all hope is lost

It’s too late now to count all the cost

I wish I'd felt both of me tits.

Next step is the surgeon that I have to see

He recommends node clearance and mastectomy

My eyes are now teary, surely this cannot be

Oh I wish I'd felt both of me tits.

His work completed and my heads in a mess

How can I now wear that new low cut dress

I'm all so uneven, I sob in distress

Oh I wish I'd felt both of me tits.

With picc line inserted and chemo to follow

You start to worry but mostly feel hollow

What is the outcome, what sort of tomorrow

Oh I wish I'd felt both of me tits.

Your hair all falls out, your suddenly bald

even on warm days you always feel cold

On with the hat now permanently installed

Oh I wish I'd felt both of me tits.

Off for the next stage I now have to go

Three weeks Radiotherapy, how much will I glow ?

I could lay an egg there and cook it you know

Oh I wish I'd felt both of me tits.

I’ve twisted and turned, with this roller coaster

Been cut and poisoned and put on a roaster

The future will tell if we killed this imposter

Oh I wished I'd felt both of me tits.