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Here's a short pic progression of me from diagnosis, through treatment. I didn't really keep this up very well during the course of treatment (I had other things on my mind, ya know!), so it's a bit sketchy. But I thought it was worth it to include what I have.

This first pic is me right around the time of diagnosis. Don't I look cheery? But at least I still had hair!

At Diagnosis

This is me towards the end of chemo. Unfortunately, I don't have a pic of me totally bald, though I was for a couple of months. A friend of mine did take a pic of me with the cue ball look but I haven't been able to get the picture from her. So if I do, I will post it. In the meantime, this is what I looked like after my hair started growing in again, which happened during the fifth month of my six months of chemo. It was a bit sketchy like this for awhile, but gradually got thicker as time went on. (No, that is not a strange black growth on my head - it's the shadow on the wall behind me! :)

During Chemo

This is me during radiation with my "radiation 'do". Unfortunately, the camera was out of focus, but you can still get the general idea. Basically, I lost all the hair from my ear level on down (except for a strange tuft in the very middle which refused to give up the ghost). Anyway, by the time this occurred, my chemo hair had grown in sufficiently in the back to mostly cover this baldness, which is why I had to hold it up on the top of my head to show it off in this pic.

Radiation Hair

Here's a front view of me at the same time as the above pic. My hair was back, but it was thin and wavy and, to say the least, completely unmanageable. The worst was trying to comb over the bald spot with the curly wavy hair on the back of my head which had a tendency to stick out at right angles from my head. But, hey, it was hair! Also, I'm holding in my lap the radiation mask I had to wear for each and every radiation treatment. Kinda hard to see the 3D aspect of it in this front-on view, but you can get the idea of the mesh it was made of.




Me, circa 2003 - 4 plus years in remission and going strong!!





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