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  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 17,186
    edited March 2012
    Marj you put the teeth grin photo in too. I still haven't made a screen saver out of that yet.
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  • Carrol2
    Carrol2 Member Posts: 2,903
    edited March 2012

    very cool collage marrje but whoa how big are those kitties. I have one that is 20 pounds, one that is 11 pounds, and one that is only 7 pounds. yes I am the crazy cat lady shhhhh don;t tell anyone.

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  • YaYa5
    YaYa5 Member Posts: 667
    edited March 2012

    eee-gads!  can someone make these smaller for me, PLEASE?  this is my hair at approximately 15 weeks.  sorry these are so big.  ugh.

    aPhotobucket

     this is the back.  i can't believe it's this long because i never see it.  ha!Photobucket" m 

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  • YaYa5
    YaYa5 Member Posts: 667
    edited March 2012

    i'm so sorry for those enormous pics.  it's late and i'm too tired to work harder at posting well.  i know someone on here can reduce them for me.  i can't understand why that white hair on the sides is growing straight toward my face.  so weird.  because i've colored my hair for at least 30 years, i had no idea what was underneath!  i'm not too pleased at all with the gray/white.

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  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 17,186
    edited March 2012

    YaYa5's hairs at approximately 15 weeks.

    http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq277/yayacwe/Photoon2-21-12at920PM2.jpg  http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq277/yayacwe/Photoon2-21-12at921PM2.jpg

    Is that better? Tongue out

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  • YaYa5
    YaYa5 Member Posts: 667
    edited March 2012
    robo, i still have a few bald spots on the very top.  i think it looks really ugly from the front.  aren't we just crazy about this hair stuff?  i just try to remember all the money i'm saving at the salon and on hair products!  a bottle of shampoo has lasted me 8 months and it's not even half empty!
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  • YaYa5
    YaYa5 Member Posts: 667
    edited March 2012
    lago, i was sooooooooo hoping you were still online!  thank you for fixing the pics for me.  i knew you would if you were still here.  Wink
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  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 17,186
    edited March 2012
    Yaya you can edit your picture post and remove your big heads if you like.
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  • Ossa
    Ossa Member Posts: 919
    edited March 2012

    yaya. We have about the same amount of hair

    Finished my last rad. today woohoo. Herceptin until July 16 (every three weeks).. then hopefully my hair will start growing faster

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  • cdairth
    cdairth Member Posts: 176
    edited March 2012

    Looks good YaYa!



    Big cat confession time. I have two brother cats: both 20 lbs. When they sit on my lap, I can't get up.

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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited March 2012

    Marjie, thanks for the collage. You also look splendid in all your photos, but I admit that I actually like your post-chemo hair way better than your old do. 

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  • achpurple
    achpurple Member Posts: 290
    edited March 2012

    Marjie:  Ditto what Momine said - you rock that new do!

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  • Sandlake
    Sandlake Member Posts: 211
    edited March 2012

    Hi All,

    I love all the hair pictures so much. Everyone looks so amazing, love the colors too.  It will be interesting to see my "natural" color. I am on #7 of 12 Taxol and see my hair starting to show!  It's a little itchy, is this normal?   I still have no eyebrows and eyelashes though.

    I too am a cat person, my Simba is 19 years old.  He has be so lovey and attached to me these past 5 months.  Love him so much!!

    I will try posting a picture of me taken last week...if it is too big, I know lago will help me outWink 

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  • Peacock
    Peacock Member Posts: 86
    edited March 2012

    Sand lake, I am exactly where you are, 7 th taxol is this week, and my itchy scalp now has peach fuzz! Yay!

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  • Sandlake
    Sandlake Member Posts: 211
    edited March 2012

    Peacock, the peach fuzz was a welcome surprise!!!  Hope you are doing alright with Taxol.  Are you doing rads after Taxol?

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  • Carrol2
    Carrol2 Member Posts: 2,903
    edited March 2012

    yaya looking good lots of hair for 15 weeks.

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  • Deb720
    Deb720 Member Posts: 36
    edited March 2012
    I haven't been on this site much, so I'm sure you've talked about it before, but would someone please tell me when my hair is going to start growing!  I had 4 AC and 4 Taxol and had my last Taxol on Feb. 9.  It's been almost 4 weeks and all I have is a little peach fuzz and I'm not even sure that's new.  I never really looked at while I was doing chemo.  Wink I'm very impatient.  It's had 4 weeks and really needs to get a move on!  When will it begin to grow?
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  • Carrol2
    Carrol2 Member Posts: 2,903
    edited March 2012
    deb720 your on the right track. Most of us see the little sprouts about 4-8 weeks and full coverage at about 4 months. I had kind of a GI Jane at 4 months. It's a slow process but you'll get there. I like to take pics once a month so I can see the progress, I always recommend people do that even if it's just for you and you never post them. Otherwise you'll be driving yourself crazy staring in the mirror. It's been over a year for me and mine is now growing down over my collar.
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  • Deb720
    Deb720 Member Posts: 36
    edited March 2012

    Thanks Carrol.  I do stare at it in the mirror every day.  Then there are always those little thoughts, "What if it doesn't come back!".  I have my surgery to exchange my expanders for the implants at the end of this month and they said no makeup, so I really wanted to have at least eyebrows and a little hair by then so I wouldn't look so ghostly.  I'm starting to feel really good, so I want everything to be back to normal!  I'm just not very patient.  Smile 

    Also my peach fuzz is really light colored (my natural color was brown).  Does that mean it's going to come back in gray?  (I'm 46 and really didn't have any gray before I lost it all.)

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  • Carrol2
    Carrol2 Member Posts: 2,903
    edited March 2012

    I didn't get the peach fuzz but there are a lot of women on here who did that can tell you more about that. When mine came in it seemed really grey and I colored it with a semi perm color at about 6 months. But as it grew longer I realized there was not that much grey and now I leave it alone cause it kind of looks like hilites. I am def growing it long again but not sure about the color yet. I had been very blonde for about 10 years before all this and it is very damaging. But blondes do have more fun . . .

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  • FLislander
    FLislander Member Posts: 243
    edited March 2012

    Hey

    Found this website on eyebrows and eyeliner



    EyelinerHer.blogspot.com

    She does some really great stuff, still trying myself, also the best scarf tying tips

    Cindy

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  • shore1
    shore1 Member Posts: 739
    edited March 2012

    Deb720, I had AC x 4 and taxol/herceptin x 12 weekly. I finished chemo 2/1 so you & I are on same time line. I had clear fuzz around #7 taxol. Its been 5 weeks and I now have an ugly grey coating of what looks more like real hair. Im so upset by the grey which is mixed in with an ugly blackish color. I used to have great brown hair with auburn highlights. Im coloring it in a few weeks with home semi permanent color. I also have my exchange end of March and am wearing make up. I get the no jewelry thing, but I don't think a little brow pencil & mascara is going to hurt anything :) im more worried about having the surgery with no real hair. Planning to wear a hat.

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  • MizMarie
    MizMarie Member Posts: 332
    edited March 2012

    Shore1, I ignored the "no makeup" edict, and nobody said a thing.  I wore one of my soft turbans, and one of the nurses who was prepping me told me to take it off so she could put one of those surgical shower caps on my head.  The other nurse told her it wasn't necessary to take off my hat, and they put the surgical cap over my turban.  Oh, and my lovely auburn red hair came in the same as yours, but I am starting to see a little more red underneath, so maybe there's hope!

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  • Deb720
    Deb720 Member Posts: 36
    edited March 2012

    Thanks Shore1 and MizMarie!  I'm definitely wearing brow pencil then when I have surgery!  Hopefully I'll start getting more hair soon.  My husband thinks I'm weird for obsessing over it, but he just doesn't understand. 

    FLislander, thanks for the website on the eyebrows and eyeliner!  Those are good tips.

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  • sewingnut
    sewingnut Member Posts: 1,129
    edited March 2012

    I also ignored the "no makeup" bit when I went for port removal. Nobody said a word.

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  • Ossa
    Ossa Member Posts: 919
    edited March 2012

    I wore my wig during my mastectomy, they just put surgical cap over it.. Also wore makeup when I got my port and plan on wearing ot when they take it out

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  • shore1
    shore1 Member Posts: 739
    edited March 2012

    MizMarie, glad to hear there's hope that normal color comes back!



    Deb, my husband doesn't get it either. I don't think most people who haven't experienced it get how upsetting it really is.



    Ossa, do you think I should ask in advance about wearing wig during exchange? Would be pretty bad tho if it got knocked off when they move me around during surgery! I can just see it now. Ugh, I am obsessed.

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  • marjie
    marjie Member Posts: 1,134
    edited March 2012

    My hair came back in some crazy blackish greyish ick......I coloured it once, but that colour is gone and it's now back to it's natural colour.

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  • Ossa
    Ossa Member Posts: 919
    edited March 2012

    Shore..

    I asked the nurse during my admittance, she mared it on my sheet and said if surgeons have an issue with it they will remove it.. Still had it on in recovery room..

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  • JulieLynn
    JulieLynn Member Posts: 144
    edited March 2012

    Shore 1 - Catching up on things from today.  I'm sorry but I laughed so hard when I read your post about the wig falling off during surgery....just picturing that, being out, wig half off the gurney.....LMBO!!  That could so easily be me soon!!  I don't have a wig but I'm very attached to my hats.....and something like that would happen to me with my luck, even if I was awake!.  I see my PS on Thursday and hope to get a surgery date.  Thanks for the visual - I needed a good laugh!!  Wishing you well with your surgery with makeup, wig, and the results!!!

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