Sunday, October 18, 2015

It Wasn't Psycho, But Still...

I will admit that Janet Leigh had a worse time of it as she tried to wash off the road dirt in Psycho, but I have to say that this morning's shower was somewhat traumatizing. Even when you're halfway expecting it, it's a very weird thing to get out of the shower, start drying off and realize that your white towel is now grey because most of the hair that was on your head is now stuck to the towel.

The chemo drugs used to treat colon cancer  are supposed to cause "thinning" of the hair rather than complete hair loss, but, not to split hairs,* at some point the difference between thin and gone is pretty hard to find. It seems I crossed that point sometime yesterday. Regardless, given how mangy my head looked, I decided it was time to trade the clippers for a razor. 

It's a very strange thing to not have any hair on your head. I assume I'll get used to it eventually, but right now it's really distracting. I've always had this habit of touching my head, and now every time I do I get this weird, what the heck happened to my head?, shock. 

But I suppose it could be worse.** Sib4 tells me that I don't have an oddly shaped head, or any freakish bumps or anything, so I suppose I can claim I'm doing it for fashion -- well I could, if there was anything else about me at all that qualified as fashionable. Sadly, fashion has never been my strong suit, as you can see pretty clearly here:



I'm just a bald guy in a shapeless and colorless sweatshirt.

The handsome guy next to me is one of my nephews. I suckered him into the picture because I have one somewhere of the two of us taken about a dozen years ago -- when I had a lot more hair and he had a lot less height -- and I thought it would be fun to post a set of before and after shots. Of course, I can't actually find the before at this point, but if it turns up in the next few days I'll add it.


* Ba-duh, bum. 
** And this doesn't even begin to deal with women undergoing treatment who have to respond to hair loss. Men have it easy managing this compared to women. 

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