Archive for the ‘hair loss’ tag
Life without hair
Cancer and hair loss go together like rain and holidays in Wales. Hair loss often comes from systemic chemotherapy (explanation here), but radiation to the head can also cause hair loss.
Now, when I previously saw people with cancer-related baldness, without really thinking about it, I assumed that their hair just fell out one day in big clumps, and as most cancer patients I’d seen seemed to have the Yul Brynner shine, I assumed it ALL came out.
This turns out not to be the case. Read the rest of this entry »
Hair today, gone tomorrow . . .
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. Read the rest of this entry »
