Now that I am reaching the end of chemo, I think I can draw some conclusions about how my bodily hair reacts to all this poison.
As you can see from the image above, my head hair seems to be doing fine. If I leave it alone, I can maintain this impression for about a month. After that, it starts to look fuzzy and mangy again.
It has taken me about eight days to get that manly growth you see on my cheeks. I refer to it as my "seven day shadow". You may notice that I am now completely spared from the hassle of shaving my upper lip. Although it gives me a distinctly Amish appearance, I appreciate the time it saves me (which I now use to floss my teeth).
I'm sad to admit that for the eyebrows I have adopted the comb-over technique. Over my right eye I have 5 thick, wiry hairs remaining (4 black, 1 blonde??). My left eye has 8 of these. The rest is just a downy peach-fuss. If these wiry, structural hairs are arranged just right, my eyebrows look as if I have 13 thick hairs that I have arranged just right. Part of me thinks this is pathetic and that I should pluck them and go totally Terminator, but a bigger part of me can't let go (I will never make fun of the comb-over guys again).
My ear hair...if cancer were ear hair, I'd be fucked.
As for other significant hair loss, today we'll only be talking about what I have photographed.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The hair report
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4 comments:
I think you look pretty damn good! (of course it helps that the guys on the cover of the cool magazines have buzz cuts and 7 day shadows!)
Keep working on the comb-over... it's all in the technique...
dingle berries?
Kevin, I think I have some spare eyebrow hairs in the "uni-brow" area that I am happy to share with you. If only we could figure out a way to transplant them. :-)
Kevin,
I look forward to the happy day when you finish chemo, your hair grows back (except in your ears, where it recedes), and you can devote your blog full-time to flossing advocacy!
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