When you have cancer and you lose your hair to chemo you are desperate to know when your hair will start growing back.
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| October 2013 |
When I was bald I looked to find blogs that showed hair re-growth after cancer. I found a few, but it was really hard to find and there wasn't much out there. So I vowed when this was all said and done, that I'd write a post for someone who might be needing the reassurance that yes, hair grows back after chemo. Yes, the first few months of regrowth are down right scary and no I didn't run around town looking like this very often. I still wore hats and scarves until the first week in March. By then I looked less like a freak of nature. I will admit I do still feel like I'm having the ugly hair grow out stage, but by now I don't look like I'm growing my hair out from chemo, but more like I deliberately had short hair and am growing it out from a short hair cut. Sometimes I wonder what is harder being bald or having the ugly grow out hair style. I so look forward to the day my hair is down to my shoulders; maybe a year from now it will I can only hope.
People often ask me if my hair was this curly and this dark before chemo. My response is always, "yes it was curly, but it was always so long, so of course it wasn't this curly and I think it is the same color, maybe a little darker and definitely more grays eek." I'm pretty sure my hair is curlier than before, but we will see once it gets longer if it ever gets there.
I like the curly look, it is super easy. I can even blow dry my hair on high and in a few minutes it's dry and I'm out the door. I try to wear it straight sometimes, but it just isn't my favorite do right now, I think because it has too many layers and the bang doesn't quite stay behind my ear, almost but I have a hair cut scheduled May 18, so it will get cut again.
Here you go: 18 months of hair grow out.
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| Early December 2014 |
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| Christmas 2014 |
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| January 2014 |
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| February 2014 |
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| March 2014 |
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| Early April 2014 |
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| June 2014 1 year from OVC Diagnosis |
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| First Haircut June 2014 |
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| July 2014 |
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| August 2014 |
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| September 2014 |
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| October 2014 |
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| Second Hair Cut Oct. 2014 |
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| Early November 2014 |
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| Thanksgiving November 2014 |
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| Christmas2014 |
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| January 2015 |
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| Early February 2015 after 3rd Haircut |
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| Early March 2015 |
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| End of March 2015 |
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| April 2015 |
Loved this! You have always had super cute hair, no matter the length. Dallin is already planning his senior trip to Martha's Vineyard. Hope you will be there;)
ReplyDeleteNext year. Summer 2016.
ReplyDeleteYour hair looks absolutely darling! So classy!
ReplyDeleteYou are just the cutest thing and I LOVE those curls!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I've told you that I have curls on the side of my head with stick straight in the back. Awesome. But, the back is finally long enough that I can use a curling iron so things are finally getting a bit more balanced!
I'm getting my hair cut on Monday. I'm tired of my mullet, I just want it all 1 length.
DeleteYour one of a kind Terah, in a wonderful way!! I love how you showed the progression from then to now, so amazing!! Terah you truly look healthy and beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteAh, so are so sweet, thank you!
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