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  • Deb720
    Deb720 Posts: 28
    edited March 2012

    ksmatthews, Love it!  It looks great!  Oh, to have hair again!

  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Posts: 6,621
    edited March 2012

    ksmatthews, you look great!  fabulous trim & style!

  • mizmarie
    mizmarie Posts: 137
    edited March 2012

    Beautiful!

  • lago
    lago Posts: 11,653
    edited March 2012

    And now for the real ksmatthews. (hairdo looks so much better in this photo):

     

  • cdairth
    cdairth Posts: 63
    edited March 2012

    Looks really good ksmatthews!

  • Bonseye
    Bonseye Posts: 124
    edited March 2012

    Ksmatthews-your hair looks awesome!! Hope mine comes in like yours!! You look beautiful!



    Before BC I would use Argan Morraccian Oil-it is the best to keep your hair soft and no frizzies, be glad to have some hair to put it on. I did start getting my hair and have 3 more treatments....sooo excited!

  • kdajay
    kdajay Posts: 10
    edited March 2012

    The last time I had my hair cut...other than trimmed...I was in 7th grade. I am now 58! That should give you an idea how much hair I had before chemo took it. Now my hair is out-of-control curly and about two inches or so long. I never really liked short hair (on me). That said I have to ask, is anyone else tired of people saying...oh, I love your hair! You look really good with short hair. You should keep your hair short ... Or other comments around that?



    I want to scream at them that it reminds me every time I look I the mirror that I am a cancer patient and i hate it! That I want to go back to before... Sorry, venting here.

  • kdajay
    kdajay Posts: 10
    edited March 2012

    Sorry, I rally didn't mean to offend anyone...it is just how I feel for me.

  • onvacation
    onvacation Posts: 521
    edited March 2012

    ksmatthews - your hair is so pretty - growing back nice!

    Kdajay - know how you feel, I have long hair and I can't even imagine how long it will take just to get to my shoulders!  Only thing I can think of is after we go through all of this, it won't be as important as it was before - other than actually having hair!  LOL 

  • shore1
    shore1 Posts: 591
    edited March 2012

    Ksmatthews - hair looks really nice! How many months pfc are you and have you been trimming it along the way?



    Kdajay - Im still wearing wigs but already cringe when people tell me I will look cute in short hair. I know they mean well, but its all I can do not to scream.

  • ksmatthews
    ksmatthews Posts: 743
    edited March 2012

    Thank you Lago I can never get the dimensions right.  

    Thank you all for the compliments I am 8month pfc and today was my 2nd trim.  

  • Ossa
    Ossa Posts: 685
    edited March 2012

    Ksma.... You look great in your new do.. Look forward to mine being that long..

    Went to see my PS today.. He is fast tracking me for my exchange surgery thought my foob looked great (don't hear that every day)two weeks past rads Probably because I used Glaxal Base and Saline soakes during Rads and Emu oil as soon as I was done rads.

  • kdajay
    kdajay Posts: 10
    edited March 2012

    Shore 1 - when I was wearing my wig, it was a little longer than chin length and kind of a reddish brown. People who knew I was in treatment would tell me how much they liked my hair. I usually would ignore them or mumble thanks but sometimes i would ask them with a really serious look on my face, would you like it when I am finished with treatment? Mean, I know, but to me it was kind of like saying to someone with a prosthetic leg, "your leg looks so good on you!"

  • shore1
    shore1 Posts: 591
    edited March 2012

    Kdajay - Lol, you're right! People who know what's going on and still keep up with the remarks about "how cute" I will look really need to stop. People who don't know, and compliment my "hair" at least make me feel like I have a realistic looking wig! Today I was at 7-11 with my 10 year old son and a woman said "I just love your hair!" There's no way she knew it was a wig, but my son's eyes popped out of his head and we cracked up.

  • Muscles
    Muscles Posts: 4
    edited March 2012

    Onvacation, I did my first competition Oct. 2011 at age 50.  Wanted to enter the next phase of my life in the best shape of my life and three months later all this happened.  At least my body is stronger to handle chemo. Tracie23, love your idea about having best friends over to shave your head (with maritinis). I Have a pixie cut now, but after the first clump falls out, I'm copying you and having friends over to each shave an area and as they shave the area they will make a wish/prayer and then pass on the electric razor to the next friend.

  • Judy_63
    Judy_63 Posts: 129
    edited March 2012

    I got so many compliments on my wig and most everyone thought it was my real hair cause very few knew I was going thru chemo. Even the few in my dept. that knew it was a wig thought it looked so real. But I am glad to have my real hair back.

  • onvacation
    onvacation Posts: 521
    edited March 2012

    Muscles - that is so cool!  I am sure you will fly through chemo since you are in such good shape!

  • missy_111
    missy_111 Posts: 97
    edited March 2012
    IMG_388514 months pfc. Still super curly in the back.
  • missy_111
    missy_111 Posts: 97
    edited March 2012
    IMG_388514 months pfc. Still super curly in the back.
  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Posts: 6,621
    edited March 2012

    wow, missy, beautiful!  and that's a lotta hair!

  • momine
    momine Posts: 2,845
    edited March 2012

    Missy, you are so pretty.

  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Posts: 2,604
    edited March 2012

    i justwanted to stop by and say hello.. still fighting with the hair growth.. my ms has certainly progressed,a nd im at a bad stage all around..

     funny, with everything going on, i still mourn for my hair..

     my primary doc, told me to "get over it" and wear the wigshahahaha

     of course, he's right.. but oh vanity... i have larned how to cut up old wigs i by at yard sales, and someone here sent me some hair. i put it on a bret.. so, i guess its faking it for me..

       my tsh won't stabalize, so i grow a little, ad then more goes.. so, i LOVE to come here, and see you guys "making it!!!

      i saw kerantique on tv today, am tempted to try it.. it had minoxidyl in it, plus a plant thats suppossed to urge the hair follicles to act as if they're young... anyone trying it yet?

      3jays

  • Charles_Pelkey
    Charles_Pelkey Posts: 99
    edited March 2012
    Great photo Missy. 
    I am now three months out of chemo and my hair is now back, all salt and pepper. It's maybe 1/2- to one inch. I actually had to comb it for the first time last week. 
  • missy_111
    missy_111 Posts: 97
    edited March 2012

    Thanks for your kind words.  I now have about 5- 5 1/2". I've noticed since I stopped Herceptin in December, that my hair growth has really picked up. Here's to quick hair growth for all of us  :) 

  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Posts: 2,409
    edited March 2012

    Missy - your hair looks fabulous!  That's a lot of length considering the Herceptin.  Have you trimmed it at all, or is what we see what you got?  I am contemplating another trim to prevent the mullet look, but maybe it's not necessary.  I don't think Carrol trimmed hers, either, and her style looks great.

  • EmmaC
    EmmaC Posts: 125
    edited March 2012

    Missy, You give me hope! I have one more week til my last herceptin treatment!

  • EmmaC
    EmmaC Posts: 125
    edited March 2012

    kdajay, YES!!!!! I hate it! I work at a diner so I have many people ho have been with me in all of this and I want to poke their eyes out at their well meaning comments. I didn't choose this. it is annoying!

  • lago
    lago Posts: 11,653
    edited March 2012

    Missy you do look really nice.

    Charles, what no picture? 

  • stjude10
    stjude10 Posts: 230
    edited March 2012

    I'm so glad to see so many photos that give me hope. Especially since my DH says my hair looks like a baby chick.  

  • missy_111
    missy_111 Posts: 97
    edited March 2012

    @Luvrving - I had it trimmed, when I had about 2" of hair.  I probably should have it shaped, but I'm kind of reluctant to have it cut right now.

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