[chemteach]

My hair was the longest it has ever been in my life when diagnosed. I am a high school teacher and knew it would be coming out, so I cut it fairly short after my first round of TCH. Of course, I pulled on it every day until it was "ripe." My students were on this journey with me, and one day I said to them after a grueling lesson, "You guys are are making me crazy today! You're making me pull out my hair!" I reached up and pulled out a huge fistful of hair, and they just gasped! I felt kind of bad for a little while because some of them went home and told their parents. I don't want to do that again.