Hands down this is the #1 question I get asked....
Why have I not lost all my hair?
No,I am not kidding.
Here is the answer - I don't know.
I do know that I don't get as high of a dose of the medication that causes you to lose your hair as say something with breast cancer does but I also know that I am getting more treatments more often than the average breast cancer patient that gets the 6 treatments every 3 weeks. I am on treatment #10 and I get mine every other week.
I did really expect it to be gone by now but it is holding on. During treatment #6 when they told me I would need 6 more I really just wanted to shave it off and be done with it but Jason asked me to hold on a bit longer. So, I did. I know the thought of losing my hair has always been harder on him than it has been on me. As I have said before - losing my hair was a small price to pay for keeping my life.
But.... here I am over 5 months down the road. I still have a good portion of my hair, I have my eyebrows and all my eyelashes (although it has lightened them a bit - which is kind of weird for me) and I STILL have to shave my legs. Could have lived without that for a while I must say.
Anyway, I get asked the "Why haven't you lost all your hair?" question at least once a day if not more. So, I am sure that there are even more people out there wondering the same thing. Now you know!
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