Guest guest Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 My daughter and I went last week and bought me a great wig. Actually SHE bought it. Lol I am going to let her play with my hair. She is 30. Lol I am going to hand her a pair of scissors next week and tell her to have a ball. She is NOT, I repeat NOT a hairdresser ! She is a singer. Lol We are very close and will have a ball doing this. When she gets finished playing we will shave my head. You are right... I wanna be in control. One question here.... Do most of you wear your wigs or the hats most? I would welcome a discussion on what you do. Have you ever gone public with no hair? Trisha -- Trisha, Hair Trisha, the hardest thing for most of us was watching our hair fall out in clumps. Everyone needs to do what they feel is best for themselves but... I highly recommend getting fitted for a wig, if you're going to buy one, and having your head shaved. I think many here will tell you the same but I could be wrong. Some people have sore scalps when the hair starts to come out. Nobody seems to know why. But seriously consider having your head either cut very close to the scalp or shaved shortly after the first chemo. You'll take it into your own power and save yourself a lot of grief. LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/ -----Original Message-----From: breastcancer2 [mailto:breastcancer2 ]On Behalf Of TrishaSent: Friday, January 27, 2006 10:22 PMTo: breastcancer2 Subject: Ann Ann I just went to your site and bought 4 of your hats. Thank you for making them available. My first chemo treatment is Monday. Don't know how soon my hair will start to spring loose but I want to be ready. Trisha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 I wear my knitted hats around the house with me. Mostly, I haven't been brave enough to go out in public sans the hat so I wear my wig mostly when I'm out and about. I keep one of my fuzzy hats in the car with me and if I'm on my way home I'll pull the wig off in the car and put the hat on. I usually wait until there is little or no traffic around me to make the switch. I do have this one beautiful lavender hat that I was given at an indoor craft fair. I took my hat off and put it on at the fair and just wore the hat all day. It felt good. The wig I have is woven, not like the older wigs that are sewn or clued on to heavy nylon like caps, so it breathes better. I believe most wigs are made this way now. I hope yours is. The biggest problem I have out in public with the wig is when I go through hot flashes, my head just starts to sweat, and I mean it starts just dripping down my face and neck. Fortunately it happens mostly in my car and more enclosed places. But sometimes it happens when I'm in stores shopping and I hate it. I keep a handkerchief in my purse and use it to mop up the sweat when I need to. It's almost embarrassing except no one else seems to notice except me. LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/ -----Original Message-----From: breastcancer2 [mailto:breastcancer2 ]On Behalf Of TrishaSent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:52 AMTo: breastcancer2 Subject: Re: Trisha, Hair My daughter and I went last week and bought me a great wig. Actually SHE bought it. Lol I am going to let her play with my hair. She is 30. Lol I am going to hand her a pair of scissors next week and tell her to have a ball. She is NOT, I repeat NOT a hairdresser ! She is a singer. Lol We are very close and will have a ball doing this. When she gets finished playing we will shave my head. You are right... I wanna be in control. One question here.... Do most of you wear your wigs or the hats most? I would welcome a discussion on what you do. Have you ever gone public with no hair? Trisha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 I meant sans the hair, not hat, LOL LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/ -----Original Message-----From: breastcancer2 [mailto:breastcancer2 ]On Behalf Of JuneSent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 10:31 AMTo: breastcancer2 Subject: RE: Trisha, Hair I wear my knitted hats around the house with me. Mostly, I haven't been brave enough to go out in public sans the hat so I wear my wig mostly when I'm out and about. I keep one of my fuzzy hats in the car with me and if I'm on my way home I'll pull the wig off in the car and put the hat on. I usually wait until there is little or no traffic around me to make the switch. I do have this one beautiful lavender hat that I was given at an indoor craft fair. I took my hat off and put it on at the fair and just wore the hat all day. It felt good. The wig I have is woven, not like the older wigs that are sewn or clued on to heavy nylon like caps, so it breathes better. I believe most wigs are made this way now. I hope yours is. The biggest problem I have out in public with the wig is when I go through hot flashes, my head just starts to sweat, and I mean it starts just dripping down my face and neck. Fortunately it happens mostly in my car and more enclosed places. But sometimes it happens when I'm in stores shopping and I hate it. I keep a handkerchief in my purse and use it to mop up the sweat when I need to. It's almost embarrassing except no one else seems to notice except me. LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 I have tried on the wig and it feels like a giant dog sitting on my head. Lol. TOOOOOO FUNNY !! IWhen I initially went to my first wig appt. I said it feels like a racoon sitting on my head! It defimitely LOOKED LIKE a wig. I did get another one though. And my sisters and friends tell me it really doesn't look like one. It was a $100. The free one I got from Cancer Action is the racoon one. LOL. I haven't worn it so I'm going to give it back to them. I don't wear a wig when I go out unless I'm going to court or Family services/adoption stuff. The wig itches like crazy. And I think I said this once before but I had to settle for this wig due to time contraints. I had to have one by the nexy day for DFS meeting. I transformed from almost black long hair to light-light frosty hightlighted brown short hair (bottom of the ear??) that looks sooooo much like my sister (that I would never want to look like) I can hardly take it! I , in a round about way discovered it doesn't bother the kids. (my 14 & 16yo girls) So, I go the way I feel the best. So far, no hair is fine with me...I do wear a cap of some sort. No options there... I'd die of hypothermia without a cap in this frigid weather. :-) It'll be Spring before I get an inkling of any hair. My treatments end at the end of April. I'm not sure I will ever go without a hat though. Dari fastest2@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Trisha, I was bald during fall and winter but I teach at a conservative university and had to look presentable. It was 1988 and bald-headed women professors weren't an option, so I got a wig that looked even better than my real hair. It had the side benefit of keeping my head warm. If I had to do this over now, I'd still go with wigs but I'd get several, only one of which would look like my real hair, and I'd have lots more fun with them! hugs, Nan --- Trisha wrote: > My daughter and I went last week and bought me a > great wig. Actually SHE > bought it. Lol I am going to let her play with my > hair. She is 30. Lol > I am going to hand her a pair of scissors next > week and tell her to have > a ball. She is NOT, I repeat NOT a hairdresser ! > She is a singer. Lol > We are very close and will have a ball doing this. > When she gets > finished playing we will shave my head. You are > right... I wanna be in > control. > > One question here.... Do most of you wear your wigs > or the hats most? I > would welcome a discussion on what you do. Have you > ever gone public with > no hair? > > Trisha > > -- Ann > > > Ann I just went to your site and bought 4 of > your hats. Thank you for > making them available. My first chemo treatment is > Monday. Don't know how > soon my hair will start to spring loose but I want > to be ready. > > Trisha > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Thanks for letting me in on your life June. I had had hot flashes for so long that I feel funny when I am comfortable. Lol I still have my hair as I haven't begun treatment yet but I have tried on the wig and it feels like a giant dog sitting on my head. Lol. I hope I can get used to it. I have heard that some ladies's heads are so tender with chemo that the wigs actually itch or hurt the head. Ladies there just has to be a reason why we are all members of this exclusive club that we all belong to now. I prefer to believe it is because we are all such special women. A big hug to each and every one of you! Trisha -- RE: Trisha, Hair I wear my knitted hats around the house with me. Mostly, I haven't been brave enough to go out in public sans the hat so I wear my wig mostly when I'm out and about. I keep one of my fuzzy hats in the car with me and if I'm on my way home I'll pull the wig off in the car and put the hat on. I usually wait until there is little or no traffic around me to make the switch. I do have this one beautiful lavender hat that I was given at an indoor craft fair. I took my hat off and put it on at the fair and just wore the hat all day. It felt good. The wig I have is woven, not like the older wigs that are sewn or clued on to heavy nylon like caps, so it breathes better. I believe most wigs are made this way now. I hope yours is. The biggest problem I have out in public with the wig is when I go through hot flashes, my head just starts to sweat, and I mean it starts just dripping down my face and neck. Fortunately it happens mostly in my car and more enclosed places. But sometimes it happens when I'm in stores shopping and I hate it. I keep a handkerchief in my purse and use it to mop up the sweat when I need to. It's almost embarrassing except no one else seems to notice except me. LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/ -----Original Message-----From: breastcancer2 [mailto:breastcancer2 ]On Behalf Of TrishaSent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:52 AMTo: breastcancer2 Subject: Re: Trisha, Hair My daughter and I went last week and bought me a great wig. Actually SHE bought it. Lol I am going to let her play with my hair. She is 30. Lol I am going to hand her a pair of scissors next week and tell her to have a ball. She is NOT, I repeat NOT a hairdresser ! She is a singer. Lol We are very close and will have a ball doing this. When she gets finished playing we will shave my head. You are right... I wanna be in control. One question here.... Do most of you wear your wigs or the hats most? I would welcome a discussion on what you do. Have you ever gone public with no hair? Trisha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Hey, my life's an open book. ;-) Seriously though, when I first tried on wigs, while I still had hair, the wig felt like that to me too. When I wear it now, at least the first couple of hours, it feels okay. What I do like about it is that I can now be ready to go, from shower to dressed to out the door, in less than 20 minutes. I shower, I get dressed, I put on my hair, I'm out. LOL. Like I had said in a much earlier post, I'm not brave enough to go sans the hair. Maybe I will, I don't know. I'm more than halfway through treatments, only 3 more to go. I should have hair again by July. Once it starts getting warm outside, which will be around March or April here, I might have a change of heart. It'll be in the high 80s to 90s by May. LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/ -----Original Message-----From: breastcancer2 [mailto:breastcancer2 ]On Behalf Of TrishaSent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 3:26 PMTo: breastcancer2 Subject: RE: Trisha, Hair Thanks for letting me in on your life June. I had had hot flashes for so long that I feel funny when I am comfortable. Lol I still have my hair as I haven't begun treatment yet but I have tried on the wig and it feels like a giant dog sitting on my head. Lol. I hope I can get used to it. I have heard that some ladies's heads are so tender with chemo that the wigs actually itch or hurt the head. Ladies there just has to be a reason why we are all members of this exclusive club that we all belong to now. I prefer to believe it is because we are all such special women. A big hug to each and every one of you! Trisha -------Original Message------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 When I got my cancer and went for chemo....I was working at the time at a Community College dealing with the students and had to wear a wig to work each day...did not like wearing the wig...when I got home I would take off wig and wear one of the hats i had...that was back in 2002...and retired in 2004... Betsy (NC) Note: forwarded message attached. Thanks for letting me in on your life June. I had had hot flashes for so long that I feel funny when I am comfortable. Lol I still have my hair as I haven't begun treatment yet but I have tried on the wig and it feels like a giant dog sitting on my head. Lol. I hope I can get used to it. I have heard that some ladies's heads are so tender with chemo that the wigs actually itch or hurt the head. Ladies there just has to be a reason why we are all members of this exclusive club that we all belong to now. I prefer to believe it is because we are all such special women. A big hug to each and every one of you! Trisha -- RE: Trisha, Hair I wear my knitted hats around the house with me. Mostly, I haven't been brave enough to go out in public sans the hat so I wear my wig mostly when I'm out and about. I keep one of my fuzzy hats in the car with me and if I'm on my way home I'll pull the wig off in the car and put the hat on. I usually wait until there is little or no traffic around me to make the switch. I do have this one beautiful lavender hat that I was given at an indoor craft fair. I took my hat off and put it on at the fair and just wore the hat all day. It felt good. The wig I have is woven, not like the older wigs that are sewn or clued on to heavy nylon like caps, so it breathes better. I believe most wigs are made this way now. I hope yours is. The biggest problem I have out in public with the wig is when I go through hot flashes, my head just starts to sweat, and I mean it starts just dripping down my face and neck. Fortunately it happens mostly in my car and more enclosed places. But sometimes it happens when I'm in stores shopping and I hate it. I keep a handkerchief in my purse and use it to mop up the sweat when I need to. It's almost embarrassing except no one else seems to notice except me. LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/ -----Original Message-----From: breastcancer2 [mailto:breastcancer2 ]On Behalf Of TrishaSent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:52 AMTo: breastcancer2 Subject: Re: Trisha, Hair My daughter and I went last week and bought me a great wig. Actually SHE bought it. Lol I am going to let her play with my hair. She is 30. Lol I am going to hand her a pair of scissors next week and tell her to have a ball. She is NOT, I repeat NOT a hairdresser ! She is a singer. Lol We are very close and will have a ball doing this. When she gets finished playing we will shave my head. You are right... I wanna be in control. One question here.... Do most of you wear your wigs or the hats most? I would welcome a discussion on what you do. Have you ever gone public with no hair? Trisha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Thank you Nan. I have purchased a "normal" one but I do plan (at the suggestion of my auburn loving hubby) to purchase a RED one for fun. Trisha -- Ann> > > Ann I just went to your site and bought 4 of> your hats. Thank you for> making them available. My first chemo treatment is> Monday. Don't know how> soon my hair will start to spring loose but I want> to be ready.> > Trisha> > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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