I have a confession to make. I’ve always had sort of a vain obsession with my hair. There, I said it. Since I was a young teen I have been a little too focused on my hair, especially the part that never laid down quite right. If you added a lifetime of minutes fussing over such a trivial thing, it would certainly amount to way too much wasted time. I wonder what other parts of my life have been completely wasted and the time I would like to redeem when the end of life draws near!
When I found myself responding so well to chemo, I thought to myself, maybe I will be the rare one who doesn’t lose his hair. Then, when it started thinning, I thought, maybe I won’t lose ALL of it. Then came today. With fistfuls of hair coming out with each comb stroke, I realized today was THE day. One of the ironic things here is that when you lose your hair, they give you a coupon for a free haircut downstairs. So my technician Lita escorts me downstairs on the first off unit “field trip” of my three week stay here. After the barber shaved my head, I thought this would be a good picture, Lita with her full head of thick curly locks and me with my bald head.
‘Not sure if I should start working on my Bruce Willis accent (“Hair loss is God’s way of telling me I’m human”) or Elmer Fudd (“Kill da wabbit.”)
You look great to my eyes con hair or sin! Elizabeth
Peace and Joy! Gal. 5:22-25
Told you so…bald is beautiful and sexy! Way to go honey!
Good to see that smile…good look!
Elijah said, “Grandpa looks like a monk!”
Eric
You are so handsome! 🙂
Jen
From my Dad’s side of the family, all men end up bald. They have thick hair around the ears, but nothing on top. My brother, then in his teens, enjoyed his long curls in spite my mom’s bickering about long hair. When he hit his twenties, well, it was obvious he was going bald. So he did the brave thing: he shaved it all and for months after that, he sported a T-shirt that said: “Bald is beautiful!”.
My son, Pedro, is also thinning on top… and he’s 24. He says shaving will be Plan B… or C.
I’ll tell you how it goes.
In any event… Bald is beautiful.
There’s no hair or Thayer’s no hair…you carry it with style, either way! Shall I get you the book on phrenology so Marcia can unlock the mysteries reading the bumps on your head? Love you!