[janet11]

Erin, I was also on TCH, and when my hair started thinning so much that I was finding hair in my dinner plate, sneezing on what was on my pillow, etc, I had my hair 'buzzed' to about 1cm long all over.

After a couple weeks, i didn't notice the difference... and then I was embarrassed.... had I cut it and then it stopped falling out? Did I do this without needing to?

I finally took a picture and compared it to the picture after the hair cut. WOW. As my husband confirmed, the cut was the right thing to do. I just don't see myself in a mirror. I tend to see what I want to see. But I sure spent some bad moments thinking that I had done more damage to my self image than the cancer did.

Am attaching a photo of me for halloween 2006 -- when I spiked my remaining hair yellow. This was three weeks after the buzz cut. I lost a bit more... but mainly, things looked like a lot of shiny scalp with soft hairs here and there.

My last chemo was Dec 27 and now I look like I have a 2 day beard.... and it's NOT coming in gray! Yippee. (No, I wasn't gray before -- just a little sprinkled here and there, and one streak. But you never know).

Janet