How do you decide what to do to feel an iota of your old self after losing your hair? I'm currently living in a beanie hat as I have a small amount of hair left at the front and back. Once this goes I do not know what to do... I've always had a lot of hair, kept it in a reasonable condition but taken it for granted. Do I try for a full on wig or look for a clip in piece if I keep the sides.
I certainly cannot rock the cool, bald chick look as I have the ugliest head in history. There must be 7 or 8 sebaceous cysts on my head - one, the size of a golf ball!! It would scare small children. So what ever happens I have to stay covered.
I can't believe how much this matters to me, I have cancer, my life was saved with emergency surgery on the discovery of the bowel cancer that was on the verge of bursting my bowel. I'm undergoing shockingly aggressive chemo. I've had missed injections and delayed chemo but it's the lack of hair that makes life seem unbearable.
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