Life is not fair

Well, actually the title is not strictly accurate. It should be something like ‘hair five years ago, gone today’, but that just doesn’t scan.

Yes, my hair has started falling out from the radiation. It’s not coming out in great chunks like it does in the movies; it’s more like a slow continuous fall of individual hairs. Whenever I scratch my scalp (which feels itchy from the radiation), a few hairs come away under my nails or attached to my fingers.

But although it’s slow, it’s starting to show up in the areas where my hair was already thin. Previously, my bald patch extended from my forehead back to about three quarters of the way round my head. I had monk-pattern baldness, where there’s a ring of thick hair sweeping back from the temples and round the back of the head, but the old dome is largely barren of growth, save for a few rather laughable tufts. Now those tufts have gone. Alas, poor tufts, I treasured them.

This kind of post requires photographs. And so, consigning my dignity* to the vagaries of the internet:

Note the radiation has also thickened and reddened my skin. I’m going to have to go back to bathing in the blood of virgins to recover my smooth as baby’s bot skin.

Also note the double chin. Steroids have turned me into a porker. Well . . . steroids and lots of food. Ahem.