Saturday, April 30, 2005
How my hair came out
When my hair started coming out, there was just a lot of hair in the brush. But when my sister Arlene helped me shave it off, it came out kinda weird. You know how regular hair comes out, if you tug? Like you can see the hair plug come out ...a little white thing that comes out of your scalp? Well, the chemo hair came out like it had been burnt on the scalp end - no white thing on the end. Just like it had been burned. It was weird.
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That is because the chemotherapy halts the growth of the hair deep in the follicle. This causes a break in the hair as it grows. So about 2-4 weeks after chemotherapy the broken part of the hair grows to the surface of the follicle and simply breaks off.
Kathleen
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