Donating hair to a chemo patient ...
Posted: Sunday, 16 September 2007 |
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It is very hard watching someone you love slowly ebbing away, I've lost 2 grandparents, a father, a couple of aunts, an uncle, a sister-in-law, and now my niece has been diagnosed. You can't escape death, no matter how hard you try, it is the one thing in life that you can be sure of, death. Best Wishes to you..
Tws from The Way Forward
how kind to give your lovely locks to a cancer sufferer. i got to this blog from the MM agency .. i saw your photos.... looks like you can sit on it... you could cut a wig for someone and still have long hair....
alexi photography from glasgow
I suspect the national or local cancer society would be able to give you the name of a outfits which would do wigs (cheap or cheaper) for chemotherapy patients. # Younger daughter had her long hair cut short recently before returning to uni.: the hairdresser braided and tied the excess before cutting, then off it went to some charitable outfit. # Some chemotherapy recipients find wearing wigs awfully hot and uncomfortable, and go back to wearing head scarves. No reason why not. Being treated for cancer is not something which needs to be hidden. However, some people do prefer wigs, and your donation is a nice idea, Donna.
mjc from NM, USA
It's not necessarily worse to die from cancer. To have cancer is of course not necessarily a death sentence. There are so many forms of cancer and blood diseases. We've all got to die of something or other. Often times how you die is simply the card you draw: your genetic make up, your socio-economic environment, etc. All we can legitimately ask is for wisdom and courage to live well, and to have some sources of consolation when we die.
mjc from NM,USA
There's more to you than mets the eye, that's for sure mjc. If you can't find a wig charity, most GOOD barbers will buy your locks, then you can donate the money instead.
Lerwick Trevor from ?
The actual point of donating hair not money is...and I know this sounds obvious... it's the real human hair that is wanted to make the wigs. Shredded tenners just wouldn't have the same impact.
Flying Cat from giving LT a bit of a hard stare
Years ago wigs were very hot and uncomfortable things to put up with but modern ones actually are made with real hair, and are woven on to a few fine strands of a lace-like tissue that lets most of your scalp breath-any anway as soon as you stop the chemo--wow it all grows in again(thicker and curlier)
carol from knowing lots about it as being there and been a ca
...been a cat in another liff?
Flying Cat from you can run out of space in some fields
Probably not, FC. I doubt Carol would have committed crimes against the environment and humanity which would justify such a fate. Oh, and a top of the morning to you all.
mjc from NM, USA
MJC: i aint a "Saint" well yes (a St Johnstone)supporter(from Perth) and hair after chemo does grow back very quickly,curlier and thicker(but bloody grey,as well) but the point is it DOES GROW BACK(ps.radiothereapy is as boody tiring-have went and going through both,as a patient and as you know a carer!)
carol from over here
Is Carol allowed all those bloodies? Has Anne taken her eye off the ball? Has the spam knocked her for six? Will all my questions ever be answered?
The Sainted Flying Cat from polishing my halo
Good to have you around Carol. I noticed your hair is not grey, but your current color suits you nicely ...
mjc from NM, USA
thanks mjc,my hair colour has been grey:ash blonde since growing back-got blond streaks put in ,late june and decided last month to have a full colour change,only instead of turning out blond it is now a revolting ginger colour added to the new haircut i looked like i was doing a david bowie impression--circa hunky dory/aladdin sane look alike----i just look a mess,hopefully in two to three months(hope so for nz) i wil maybe look normal again!!
carol from over here
Miau! I am a friend of FC's and have been instructed to stop by with hair donation instructions. I could only find one UK charity that take hair: http://www.littleprincesses.org.uk/donate/hair.aspx - they only started taking donations again within the past fortnight, as previously they were getting far too much hair. It might be a good idea to have a read of this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/fashion/06locks.html?incamp=article_popular_4 - it's a decent article, once you strip the Drama! away from the information. It would seem that such charities are getting too much hair (much of it unsuitable as people don't read the instructions) and insufficient money. After all, it takes 10 ponytails and $1000 to make a wig - and it's a heck of a lot easier to convince people to part with 10 ponytails. So a few pennies in the jar along with your lovely locks might not go amiss.
cub from chav central
a friend of FC, are you now cub? you aid and abet?
mjc from NM, USA
mjc: Is there anything wrong with aiding and abetting such lovely folk as FC? Hmm?
cub from chav central
Well done cub for a) getting not one but TWO comments published in the same week and b) calling me and Marmers lovely folk...*blush* and c) shortening your own magnificent mane in a good cause.
Flying Cat from an admiring glance...and a hard stare
i am sorry
susa blythe from runcorn
I live like a hermit in an island paradise, planning my survival of the impending apocalypse.
My mother is a Sheltie and my father is American. As a dual-citizen, I have lived between both cultures. I only use my UK passport these days. I made the Atlandic leap, back to Shetland. This is the only place I ever considered 'home.'
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