I would be grateful for views and appreciate we are all different. A month away from the SCT; am 64 with a full head of non greying hair – I consider myself very fortunate! I live with a 17 year old son and loving wife. We have talked about shaving my head first, or letting it fall out and then tidying it up, if needed (though would think that would be difficult given early immunity issues).
My daughter has knitted me a nice hat and I have taken to wearing a felt hat which I really like and will continue to do so. But what to do when inside – when I consider hats wrong, but coverings ok. I have cancer, I am not trying to hide it, but to live with it well. I just dont want to scare people or put them off interacting with me or really generate any particular cancer related emotion uneceearily.
Covering or no, will be obvious to those who see me I have it (rather than « you look well » usual comments!!). But equally I don’t want to « shove it in their faces » so to speak.
I will at home be guided by what my family think and prefer.
I know it will be a shock, but a short lived one. Part of me is perversely glad – as it shows it for what it is. One reason for my focus on this is that my treatment started just as I retired so did not say good by and thank you to my colleagues and they would not have seen me for a year. I plan to return when recovered (and I guess hair starting to regrow a bit) to bang a work gong, be thankful for lots of things and have a drink! But am nervous about it.
Views welcome. My current thought is to have a lightweight comfortable indoor simple beanie type covering which is easy to remove and which I could, when it gets colder, wear under an out door hat when outdoors.
Otherwise all going well enough – so far a partial response largely because I reduced dosages etc etc to mitigate impact of Peripheral Neurothapy which has now largely subsided. But optimistic about the final result.
Thanks
Nick
