Hi Ali!
I haven't logged on here for a while but wanted to wish your Mum well – by now I hope she has had her Hickman line fitted with no problems/discomfort and I have my fingers crossed that they do find her a bed so they can do #2 as well before sending her home.
My hair didn't start to fall out till I was about to go in to hospital for my stem cell return, and got gradually thinner while in hospital. I remember collecting a brushfull of hair on the day I went in, and small handfuls over the next few weeks. (I had long nearly waist-length hair then which I usually put up into a bun)
By the time I was discharged I still had fairly sparse locks all over which were hard to make look nice, so as soon as I got home I went over the road to our local barber and had him take it all off so I could start again.
I went from slaphead to suedehead beween September and Christmas (I wore my Broche knitted woolly hat for those months) then it got long enough to curl all over the place. Some people find it comes back stronger and curlier and even a different colour, so she has that to look forward to!!
My profile photo shows me about a year post SCT and you can see how it grew back over the year.
Love from
Eliz
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