I think I look like Elvis....

So my hair is growing back.  As predicted and as I hoped, it's growing back curly.  I find this ironic because I permed my hair throughout my twenties.  I even had friends who didn't know my curls were chemically induced.  And when I let it go straight again they thought I had decided to blow it straight.  I spent thousands of dollars getting my hair to do exactly what it's doing on it's own right now. I had no idea there was some connection between perm solution and chemo-therapy.

The only problem right now is that my hair, while growing. is still very short and the curls make it stand on end.  I would post a picture but I hate it, and I kind of don't want a pic posted on the internet right now. It's in that awful tween stage that I just have to suffer through.  Once it gets some length I'm going to have fun styling it but until then...

I don't think people in my neighborhood knew the real reason I was bald this summer.  I think they thought I pulled a Brittany Spears and shaved my head.  Adding a bitchin tattoo probably didn't help this image either.  I realized this after the lady at my vegetable stand, the woman at the mexican restaurant and the guy at the bodega made these following comments:

"Your hair isn't growing back very fast is it. Do you think the tattoo had an affect?"
"You look better with hair."
"So you decided to let your hair grow back in."

I would correct them or clarify but what would be the point? Besides I want to move on I don't want to branded as the CanSer girl.

Comments

[Eric Hancock]

Yea, it is a funny thing. I friend of mine went through chemo and her hair grew back curly, too. Kind of a nice thing after the travails of the treatment.