Hi, I'm back! You surely didn't think I'd stopped blogging altogether? Won't let you off that easily!! However, it's food for thought, as I, for one, am most impressed with Gemma's literary expertise! You clever little blogger Gemma! ("bLOgger"!..put your glassses on, Fbud !) No, really...Gemma's so good at this, I am thinking of giving her the reins! (If you knew what a control freak I am, you would realise what utter twaddle that is, but I like that it makes me look generous of spirit!).She expresses it all so wittily and I absolutely agree with everything she says, particularly the bit about how modest I am! Spot on, Gems! Bravo!
Now, she has raised some important issues for us CC-club* members! There is no pussyfooting around the BALD issue. It is "devastating",psychologically and physically, even 3rd time round and even when you KNOW its going to happen, and EVEN when you have a "nicely formed skull". The thing is that most of us women have never seen what lurks beneath our treasured tresses. Unless you're Brittany Spears or that actress from Sex and the City who shaved her head for a theatre role! (Commendable ...but MAD!) Most of us dread "the bad hair day", like an outbreak of acne, or an attack of conjunctivitis. Like Gemma says, if you look good you can convince your body and mind into feeling good, no matter how shallow and vain that may seem!
Often, so often, people get it wrong,so wrong...It is categorically NOT vain to worry about hair-loss. I'm here to tell you that! Ask any young man, with male-pattern baldness (William?) how he feels about it and he'll back me up on this one! OK, so the David Beckhams and Mitchell Brothers of this world voluntarily shave their noggins (although DB has clearly got over himself and in maturing is now sporting a rather chic Ricky Gervais do!...at least it proves he's still GOT hair!) Lads..do yourself a favour while you're still young. If you've still got it, flaunt it! Later on (ask your dads) you may wish you had, because , as R, my husband, so often tells me, I am "lucky" (there's that word again!), because mine will grow back!!R, by the way, has a full mop of thick brown hair with no noticeable grey at 51!And he's never shaved his head, nor ever will!But he still checks his pillow every morning for errant, non-reattachable hairs!!
Now for somee autobiographical hair details.........I come from a long line of hairdressers (Well 2 actually, my mum and mygrandma, but who knows ? I may have had a female relative thousands of years ago, crouching over her client, teasing her hair into a stylish stone-age up-do with a comb made from mammoth tusk!!) Anyway, it's in my blood, just saying.... I wasn't born with the big hair gene my mum had though, unfortunately I got my Dad's straight fine hair, but "lots of it" as hairstylists always tell me! As a hairdresser, I don't think my mum could help herself,and was perming my hair almost as soo as I could walk! (I've got the photo above to prove it!). I had a Saturday job from age 13 in my mum's salon so , although I had no intention in following in her footsteps, I obviously picked up an interest and a few pointers in the "doing of hair".
At 17 I went on a trip of a lifetime with my sister and her then boyfriend. We travelled from Tunis and Sidi Bou Said, Carthage in the North of Tunisia, down through the Sahara desert, visiting some sights worthy of 7 Wonder Status..the Amphitheatre at El Djem, the ancient Citadel of Kairhouan and on to Matmata. This is an area known for its "Troglodytes" , ancient cave-dwellings and I believe where the first Star Wars movie was filmed! A truly awesome experience....for some! Some of the caves had been converted to "hotel accommodation". (This was the 70's..its probably another theme park now??)
We were to spend the night here. To my vacuous, appearance-obsessed 17 year old mind there was nothing "awesome" about this..To enter the room,which had only a Bedouin rug that served as a door, you first had to climb a rope ladder! What?? In THESE platform heels?? Once inside the room, the full horror of it all struck home...NO ensuite, not even running water, NO wardrobe, just a hook on the wall, No mirror..........BUT ...Horror of all Horrors, the worst was to come!.....NO ELECTRICITY...NOWHERE to plug in my hairdryer!!!!!!!
I'm not sure if this overdeveloped interest and preoccupation with all things "hair" is the reason why it hurts so much to lose it all, but it goes some way to explaining why it DOES matter and I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling this way!I'll leave you to ponder that, but rest assured Part II of "The Hair" is coming soon, with some practical advice based on my vast (if reluctant) experience on the topic.....
FROM HAIR TO ETERNITY......
* CC-club: The Cancer and Chemo club.
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