Sunday, November 7, 2010

Hair Today Gone Tomorrow

So my thyroid medication is working . . . I have energy in the evenings (so I really have no excuse why I'm not packing), my thinking is less foggy, and things have almost returned to normal.

Almost

Except for my hair. Back in July I noticed I was losing a lot of hair - blamed it on having a baby and hormones, etc. Then it wasn't so bad. And now it is way worse (apparently it's a supposedly temporary side-effect of the thyroid medication). I keep wondering when I'm going to go bald. Ken promises he'll love me even if I do go bald, but I'm not sure I can love myself.

I've always been a bit vain about my hair, except for back in the middle school years when my hair was just plain big - but then, who's wasn't? My hair was the one feature that always seemed to be decent.

And now. Well, it's hard for me to not cry into my bottle of shampoo. I told Ken I was going to get bangs to make my hair loss less noticeable. Ya know what he said? He'd rather have me bald than have bangs. Really? Wow, that is true love :)

3 comments:

Brenda said...

I remember losing hair after having my babies and panicking that I was going bald. And you've had the thyroid issue complicating things... ugh.

I had to laugh that Ken would rather have you bald than banged.

Amber said...

I'm going bald too, so we'll do it together! We'll get some wigs and fancy scarves and hats. We'll start the "bald girls" club. What do you say?

Vixie said...

Tami just shaved her head because her dermatologist told her she had alopecia. She decided that rather than feel bad about not having hair and spending a lot of time trying to get it to cover her head she would just have fun with wigs! Because of the alopecia insurance covers a portion of it.