What a difference a year makes

Bayareamom: Welcome to our boards! I also thought wigs would be fun, and they totally weren't. I now have a head of very thick, 4" long hair, and it's awesome to run my fingers through it again. Hang in there, it totally comes back.

Sending this out with love again to all the ladies who think it will never end.

Hi all. I am hopefully in my last month of wearing my wig. I thought it would be fun and I bought about 5 of them but now it is a pain in the butt. It was ok during the winter but now that spring is coming and then summer I won't be wearing it at all. I have about 3 inches and all curls. Longer in back than in front and I think my front is still too short to wear in public but my friends think it looks fine. I have gone out in public wearing a hat or a band around my forehead and I did not notice if anyone stared. I think it looks like a pixie cut and I touch it all the time! I have even colored it already because it came back grey. I used Nioxin spray which I got at a beauty supply store, it is for thinning hair. I sprayed it on daily so not sure if that helped but I will try anything.

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Another one who is one year out and has finally taken off the scarves and gone "au natural".   Three weeks ago my hair was growing shaggy at the neck and around the ears so I went to my stylist of 20 years.  I'd never told him I was gone due to  cancer.  Went in, he did his normal great job and then told me "no charge".  He said he always does that for long standing clients - it's the least he can do to give back and he has a young grandchild under 1 that they were administering chemo.  Said he now sees firsthand how much this damn disease controls the lives of all loved ones during their battle.  One, wow, I can't even imagine!

BTW, jenny, you sure had a lot of hair for just being 3 weeks post chemo!   Mine took awhile to get started but when it did, look out!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this.



I just got home from finding out I've been "upgraded" from IIa to IIIa and feeling pretty sucky about it, too. Your after pic is making me cry in a good way. Guess a pic is worth a thousand words, and this one is screaming "alive and well and made it through!"

Roses, that sucks and I am sorry. On the other hand, you can rest assured that at stage III, they will hit it with all they've got. 

If it helps any, during chemo last summer:

At a dinner this summer:

Jenny, thanks. I got back in the gym after that picture was taken. I am beginning to feel so much better than I imagined possible even six months ago.

Thanks, roses. The dress is my first attempt at making a dress with built-in foobs.

Thanks so much to jennyboog and others who posted pictures here to give us all hope!  You all look fabulous. I found this thread SO inspiring when I was dealing with the aftermath of chemo, so I thought I'd share some pics too in the hopes that they might make someone else feel better.  Here I am in December, a couple of weeks before I finished chemo:

And here I am just 7 months later (last week): 

Go girls - you can do it!

Thanks Momine - I think I look rather maniacal in my bald pick, not sure what I was so happy about!

Hey Oaktown,

You're pics are amazing.  I finished chemo on Dec 5, and my hair now is much shorter than yours.  But I'm happy to have what I have.  I started going without hat/scarf or wig mid May, and I have had two trims. I love that it's curly.  For the first time in my life I have "wash and wear" hair.