Hair!! (or lack thereof...)

My hair used to be one of my favorite attributes (everyone has one). I always got complements on how nice it was and I deeply appreciated how little maintenance it required of me. No blow-drying, straightening or product use at all needed! Obviously one of the side effects of chemotherapy is hair loss. It was something that I wasn't looking forward to all. About a week ago, I cut my semi-long hair to about shoulder-length in order to make the falling out process less traumatic. My wig finally came today. I went to the salon where they (sadly) shaved all my hair off (because by now it was actually falling out) and then taught me how put the wig on and style it and whatnot. Honestly, now I'm kinda glad my hair is just gone because it saves me the trauma of having it fall out in clumps. It's also surprisingly liberating not to have hair. My head feels very light. The wig itself (pictures below) looks pretty identical to my old hair but I have to admit it's not the most comfortable thing in the world. It makes my head hot and it's a little itchy. I imagine I'll only really be wearing it when I want to look nice or pretend I don't have cancer... :) I also played around with a headscarf which is very comfortable but in my opinion looks slightly ridiculous. I imagine I'll be able to find other fun ways to wear scarves on my head in the future. Anyways, here are the pictures...

Hair pre-cancer (with my bff Ashley :)

Bald :P

Wig

Wig

Wig

Scarf

Scarf

That's all for now! Tomorrow I go in for a quick round of chemo (40ish minutes). I'll maybe update on that from the hospital. Don't forget to sign up for the Light the Night Walk HERE!

Love,
Ella <3