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A Hairy Confession

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.”)
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