Just looking in the mirror allowed me to envision life after cancer.
I’ve had long hair for most of my life. Through high school and college and motherhood and laugh lines, it has been a constant. For as long as I can remember, my hair has been tied in a long ponytail or cascading far below my shoulders, a security blanket I can drape close to my face when I’m feeling shy or a wavy mass I can flaunt when I’m feeling sexy. My hair is the reason one of my daughter’s favorite games is salon.
For as long as breast cancer patients have been prescribed chemotherapy, they have been left bald by the treatment. The reason is that some types of chemotherapy are indiscriminate. The drugs can kill cancer, but along the way they can also damage other rapidly dividing cells in the body, including hair follicles.
For $2,600 I rented a set of caps, freezing them before each of my six chemo infusions. During the sessions, my husband strapped them to my head as the poison that would ultimately save my life ran into my veins. A representative for the company taught him to stick a panty liner on my forehead during each infusion so I didn’t get frostbite on my bare skin.
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