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mkw1--You lived in beautiful Ashkelon, Israel?  How lucky!  I remember the lovely beaches and I still have some smooth, shiny shells from a few day trips there.  Our group's home base was in the Old City, Jerusalem (The Vienna Hotel), then a hostel called Ramat Rachel.  There's a Jerusalem center now for the BYU students on the Mt. of Olives. Sure would like to be a student there now.  Someday I'll go back....and probably eat myself into oblivion!

dragonfly1-  You and I have the same curly locks, but your natural color is really nice.  Wish I didn't have to dye mine. I also have that brillo texture--no natural shine. Your hairline is great!  I'm green-eyed when ladies like you can pull off a nice hairline as they wait for their bangs.  Mine receeds on one side, so I was pretty anxious to get some length in my bang area to cover it up. My brows and lashes cycle in and out, every couple of months, never leaving totally, but just enough to bug me.  I'm with lago--I think it's a combination of hormonals and left-over chemo.

SpecialK--get that picture up, pronto! (And I think of you  every time I eat my Berry Special K with almond milk

Ladies, I have just been to the hairdresser to get advice on hair straightening.  I am going to have chemical straightening done next week.  I was initially worried about the chemicals but they showed me the list of ingredients, which don't include formaldahyde, and said that the solution does not touch the scalp.

I am getting it done next week as I have not had success with at home daily straightening and don't have the skill or time for it.

If you just want to relax the curl a bit, you can get a reverse perm or relaxer.

I'll let you know how it goes.

PS I know I still have PMs from some of you to answer.  Sorry for the delay!

Thank you for your answers.  Lint roller sounds like a good idea.

Joanne my daughter coined the name Kitchenella when she was assigned to write an 'updated Fairy Tale' in English class.  Her Kitchenella was a poor religious Jewish widow with a passle of kids.  Her heroine ended up marrying the kosher supervisior at the local catering hall and lived happily ever after.

Never to late to return (to Israel)  I'll keep the light on for you.

MKW. my drugs are the generic of  Adriamycin and Cytoxan. We came to Israel in retirement more for the spirituality than the food but I'm learning to cook Israeli style and liking the results.

Dragonfly from everything I've heard it is pretty common for hair to be different after chemo.  I'm almost 69 and still have little noticable grey in my hair.  I'm wondering if mine will come back white?  This journey is hard but definitely interesting. (trying to put a positive spin on things.)

Peggy 

Kitchenella, my hair started falling out dramatically three weeks after I started my DD AC.  The timing varies with each individual.

Claire

Seems everyone dislike their curly locks.. I on the other hand is looking forward to possibly getting curls.. I have always had very fine soft straight hair with a will of it's own. Had a hard time doing anything with it..Now if these white "sprouts" on my head would only start changing colour I would be happy

dragonfly.. wow what can I say.. you look great.. so much hair..

I had poker straight hair before chemo and now had curls....or more accurate would be "bends".  I have opted to cut it right back off short again and go with the messy look because I just couldn't deal with the in-between look as it grew.  If my straight hair doesn't come back, I'll keep it very short.

Marjie, do you mean you didn't get the full chemo curl look? I also had poker straight hair and so far, 17 weeks PFC, it is still straight and kind of plastered to my head. I was wondering if I might escape chemo curls?

thank you all for the advice and support - going to invest in a lint roller today! Love this community everyone is so kind and supportive.

Kitchenella:

You seem to have the same diagnosis I had, except I was HER-. I heard than DD chemo is less harsh on our bodies than the chemo I got every three weeks Is that true?. No one in OKC city that I know was giving DD chemo, except for advanced breast cancer. I  am looking forward to visiting Israel again this coming November, God willing. my husband and I will be touring and going to places we've never been before. We are amazed how safe we feel whenever we visit Israel. 

Marial - wow!  You look fantastic!

mkw1--Yes--Ramat Rachel is a Kibbutz and has really grown since I was there in 1978.  We stayed in dorms under construction, so the bunks were new and I remember the pool was very nice, also new. We had been living in a very old, broken-down hotel in Jerusalem before Ramat Rachel.

I pruned banana trees on a kibbutz in Galilee--Degania Aleph--for 3 weeks and have fond memories there, too.  That's where I learned to use the colorful cotton gauze scarves and wrap the ends around my head and knot in the front to protect my hair.  Little did I know that I'd use scarves in this same fashion when I lost my hair many years later! 

I'm very green-eyed that you get to return to Israel in Nov.  PM me a trip report, please, with lots of pics!  And maybe you can visit some of our BC sisters who reside there?

Marial--So pretty! Only in my dreams will my hair straighten like yours after I dry it.  Your curls cooperate much better than mine!

Darn it! What am I doing wrong? Using photobucket and can't seem to get the pics to show up!

MamaV - I need to copy the HTML code from the pic in photobucket, then open the icon here with the little tree and paste to the Image URL.  It usually works for me but it does paste 2 pics, one I just delete.  I don't know what I'm doing wrong but it works enough for me. 

I just copy the photo url address and post it under the tree icon and change the dimensions to the size i want and it works.. good luck

Elizabeth looks great!