[mhnevillParticipant]

Hi Helen

It's strange isn't it! Because of the various side effects of treatment, in your case hair loss, we wish the months away – it's hard isn't it. I do hope the Revlimid maintenance works for you and the side effects diminish. I guess if not you can ask for a lower dose. You have already put up with so much.

Hairs to the future!!!!

Love Mavis x

[HelenParticipant]

Hello Mavis
Far from wishing time away, I'm very grateful that I'm improving, it's just that catching sight of myself in mirrors and windows is a constant reminder of the situation, and I'm not a wig person, I always had fine, messy hair, now I look as though I just stepped out of the hairdressers. Maybe I should adopt the Sinead O'Connor look, not brave enough yet though! 🙂
Helen

[tomParticipant]

Hi Helen and the rest of you young Ladies am sure its an awful thing to happen to a lady during and after treatment 🙁 as for me when I lost ALL my hair (cept eyelashes) it was the only time i looked poorly and that I didn't like as I dont class myself as being poorly I class it as My Today Challenge He he, and that works for me am honestly pleased My Hair has come back but am still waiting for the top hair to arrive:-/ but I think that will be a long day in hell before it darkens my head again Lol 😎

Love to you all on this fine (but windy) Sunday

Tom "Onwards and Upwards" xxxx

Ps Sinead O'Connor was a very pretty Lady with short hair xx

[eveParticipant]

Hi Everyone
Well last night I did it, could not look at the moth eaten man any longer,so decided to get my scissors out,he moaned all the way through it,told him he was lucky I did not get the dog clippers out:-P
Have cut Slims hair very short to give it more body,he tells me,when he was a marine he never had it so short,think he is telling porkies:-P

It just seems to have stopped growing and looked so moth eaten in places,has always had a full head of hair,what is strange is that his Dennis Healey eye brows are still bushy and black he will not let me near them!!!!
Hoping it might improve for Christmas if not might get the boot polish out and do a shave and shine!!!! love Eve

[HelenParticipant]

Hi Eve
I laughed out loud when I read this! I was looking at my head last week and wondering if an eyebrow pencil would work to fill in the patchy bits…. Never gave boot polish a thought. Hair does stop growing, you have 'dormant' hair for about 6 months and then it falls out. That's why we have such patchy hair as we lose the growing hair only, I cut mine down to half an inch but my scalp was so shiney in between the sparse hairs I couldn't decide which was worse, no going back once you've shaved it though. I've kept my eyebrows but lost half my eyelashes.
Ah Tom if only I looked like Sinead, Do they offer the boys a nice little toupe or wig when they have chemo?
Love Helen

[tomParticipant]

Oh Eve you made me (and still am) Laugh out loud aww poor Slim he he, I remeber My Transplant and that made mine fall out and one of the Nurses cut it short:-0 short:-S but it was still "Moth eaten" so when I got home the first thing I did was take the shaver to it and took it down to Raw Wood yep a male Sinead :-S only hair I had was Eye Lashes even my thick black healey browse were all gone 🙁 and I went through Xmas and new year Bald as a coot and it was bloomin cold Lol, as for the Toupee or wig I never bothered about it I was told av got one of the cutest Bald heads their is He he (well i aint sure about that one)

Hope this week is good for us all

Love
Tom "Onwards and Upwards" xx

[brochoParticipant]

Eve have you thought of attacking Slims eyebrows when he is asleep ? That would be soooo funny , but a bit cruel I suppose! Having lost my hair 3 times now I can honestly say it doesnt bother me anymore Mind you my eyelashes and eyebrows always stay which helps, but being a baldy is quite liberating Sinead has gone back to her shaved head now too and still looks good if only I could look like her!! love Bridget x

[tomParticipant]

Gosh Lol are all you Ladies ganging up on poor Slim (pluck im when asleep) but the best way to do the Brows is to wet them and comb them Upwards and trim the long bits off and their you have it a nice set of brows all tidy and neat 😎 and am sure Slim will love the new look 😎
But if you do go down the road of waiting while Slim is asleep can you video it and post it on you tube Lol

Love Tom xxx

[eveParticipant]

Hi Everyone

Poor Slim,that,s what I hear all the time Tom,i always seem to come out the baddy,I just reckon he does not know how lucky he is being married to me!!!!!
but there again he can not remember it!!!! LOL.
the other day he asked to see the photo,s so my daughter showed him,and for some reason he thought he was standing up(we got married in ITU),I still have not been brave enough to look at the video as even my roughy toughy son-in-law could not watch it.

He says he has got grounds for divorce,as he does not remember it!!lol
he is a bit scared to go to sleep in case I attack his Denis Healeys!!!!
I could do a John Bobbitt on him. love Eve:-P

[tomParticipant]

Hi Lady's
And Poor poor Slim :-0

Gosh I wish I had said OK to the Healey Brow attack, now we are talking a Bobbit :-S Lol.

As for the memory loss I had? nay have it even still and my Laed Nurse tells me its Chemo Brain with a dash of erm I forgot?:-S you will have to slip Slim a sleepy tab to knock him out then video you trimming his Healey Lol.

Love Tom (Slim's Mate) "Onwards and Upwards" xx

[HelenParticipant]

Been away, had chest infection , got ready for Christmas………. Then become allergic to the wig!!!! Am now sporting 1 cm hair and very snazzy earrings.
Back from the carol service and wishing all of you a peaceful and happy Christmas
Helen

[tomParticipant]

Hi Helen

Well its a bugger this Bloomin Chest Infection seems we all are prone to those 🙁 and worry not you look Beautiful with short hair, no need for the wig 🙂

Hope you were strong enough to enjoy the day

Love and Hugs

Tom "Onwards and Upwards" xxxx

[HelenParticipant]

Awww Tom thanks ever so much, hope you had a good day, I think we did, I cooked lunch for 14 then snuck away to sleep for hours this afternoon so now wide awake……..
Love Helen

[tomParticipant]

Hi Helen

Yes we had a great time Thanks, and you done a great job cooking for 14 :-0 me if I have to feed myself can I get it all to be ready at the same time? not on your nelly thank the lord for Microwaves to reheat the stuff that was ready 10/20 mins before the rest lol BUT I have a great Cook in my young Bride Elaine so dont have to worry too much he he.

Good to hear after all that work you had a few hours shut eye (the body heals when it sleeps)

Have a good week end

Love Tom "Onwards and Upwards" xxx

[mhnevillParticipant]

Hi Helen

Sorry about the infection and the alergy to the wig! What luck. Still, at least your hair is growing – another couple of months and this hard period will almost be behind you.

Amazed that you had energy to cook for so many.

Have a really good year in 2012. May it feel like a new beginning.

Mavis x

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