First Christmas present.

[angelina]

Hi Ladies,

Last night I went out for a meal with my work friends. Took my sister as it

was her birthday....... she has been stranded down here with us in Devon

due to the rail disruptions caused by the landslides on the rail tracks.

One of my lovely friends gave me an early Christmas present which she

insisted I open. I am now the owner of five new hats!!!! to keep my pixie

hair cut covered in the cold weather. As I already own two hats...I now have a

different one for every day of the week. Last night was my first outing

without my wig....oh my I did feel bare without my shoulder length bob...

Guess it's something I will have to get used too but at least my hair is now

growing back ....... 6months after chemo ended.

Happy Christmas shopping everyone

Angie xx

[leolady]

Lovely, you're getting there. 'Gods haircut' looks better with small earings. The back of mine looked like a Barber's 3/4 cut. I got a few strange second glances but when I look back on the photos it did'nt look that bad and I too have always had chin length hair.

Hairs to you!

Leolady

[MargaretJ in reply to leolady]

Oh I disagree about those earrings! I bought some really cheap gold ones shaped like chrismas trees! I'll post a pic later today to demonstrate the 'me' with no hair and outrageous make up & jewellery! I shaved the head and wore elaborate showy turbans! Head up and proud! Feel an idiot now!

My hair has grown back very fine and fly away!

Never one to be discrete me! LOL! My attitude is very much two fingers to the disease and its consequences!

Love M xxxxx

[Hidden in reply to MargaretJ]

Agree - find truly outrageous earrings!

[angelina in reply to MargaretJ]

Hi Margaret

I agree with the long earings....I wore the longest pair I had on our

Friday night out....it almost felt like a safety blanket.

Can't wait to see your photos.

Love Angie xx

[MargaretJ in reply to angelina]

It weill have to be tomorrow! I am going out to eat at a friends tonight and need to get a bottle of wine!

[angelina in reply to MargaretJ]

Ok...look forward to seeing your pictures Margaret.

Enjoy your meal.

Love A xx

[Whippit in reply to MargaretJ]

Love it Margaret!

[angelina]

Yes I also got a few second glances, it does take a lot of courage to go out

the first time. As if we haven't gone through enough already.....but suppose

it all helps to make us stronger.

Angie x

[MargaretJ in reply to angelina]

When I was treated to the "double take" and OMG reaction I looked the chap in the eye (not easy he was 6 ft and I am 5'2") and said "Yes! I've got cancer! You have a problem with that?". He went scarlet muttered inc.voherently and fled! LOL!

I told you I am not the she retiring type!

M

[MargaretJ in reply to MargaretJ]

Should have read "the" not she! How do we download pics into an existing blog?

[Whippit in reply to MargaretJ]

There's no way Margaret, unless you create a blog for yourself separately and copy in the URL. The other way, I should imagine is to create a Flikr account where you can store and share your photos. I've been meaning to explore both options so we can share more together.

I created a blog for myself this week but it was a free one on the internet and very limited - so no option to upload photos. I'll have a go with an Apple Web page application but it seems I have to go into the Apple Shop to buy this. Will also have a go with Flikr as I have an account but have almost never used it.

Enjoy your dinner with friends tonight. I'll post up more information if I work anything out.

Had to laugh at your staring out the OMG look you got. How rude people can be staring like that. It's only people aren't used to seeing women without hair. If we were the same to men we'd be standing in the streets permanently open-mouthed. xx

Love Annie xxx

[Hidden in reply to Whippit]

Hi Annie. Try Wordpress or Blogger. Still free and you can do lots with either. This is my family history blog,methought I haven't updated it for a while. childrenofmoorfield.blogspo...

Love

Linda xx

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

That nonsense should have read 'although'! Xx

[Whippit in reply to Hidden]

Linda - you can explain to us how to upload photos and files via the blog. Hang on a minute, I'm just going to have a look at yours. xxx

[Hidden in reply to angelina]

I was in a fairly sad and hopeless mood the first time I went out without hair hat or scarf and must confess I snapped back "yes, what?" at the two teenaged baristas in the coffee shop who just didn't know where to look... Shouldn't have really :-0

[Hidden]

Hi Angie,

You won't believe this but I am 11months after chemo...and I really don't like my hair it is still too short...I went out tonight to a concert and wore smy wig... it just feels like a safety blanket, (loads of people said how good I looked ).... I feel they wouldn't say that if they saw my hair... I wasn't like this the first time I lost it...but this time...I don't know when I'll be ready but aren't hats great? I had a lot the first time and I enjoyed wearing them...so enjoy your lovely early Christmas present...lots of love x G x

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Oh ladies, I can see a hat/headgear pic gallery coming on via this blog... Time I uploaded a pic in any case...gotta ask hubby to reshape head this morning and will dig out my new red hat for a pic after !!!

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Reshave, not shape!! LOL

x

[Whippit in reply to Hidden]

ha ha - I did laugh about your husband re-shaping your head.

I'm looking forward to seeing the pic. If the one you find won't upload 'cos it's too big you can email it to me. My Apple Mac has a very simple way of reducing photo sizes to the required no of pixles for uploading to the internet. I could resize and send it back to you if you wish.

xxx love Annie

[angelina in reply to Hidden]

Hi Gwyn

Have you bought the sea kelp soap bar from Lush which I mentioned...

it was a tip from Linda and it helped her hair growth so I gave it a try.

I have been using it for about 6wks and it has really helped.

I'm going out next weekend with a bigger crowd from work......i'm

already thinking shall I wear my wig LoL.... as you say it's like a safety

blanket

.On the funny side before we went out Friday my sister asked if

I wanted some of her hair wax on !!! What for I asked......incase your hair

blows about in the wind when we get to the harbour.LoL...I passed on that

one. My hair is about 1/4 inch long..curly at the back and straight and

very fine at the front.

Just off to choose a hat for todays walk.

Think I may have given you another subject for your next poem ' HATS'

Lots of Love

Angie xx

[Hidden in reply to angelina]

Yes! that's a thought "Hats" hhmmmm when I wore loads of hats (that year 2008) they had a lot of hats in the shops and in Matalan in particular... but most of them had peaks on the front, at my age a definite no-no, so I took the peaks off and twirled them or twisted them (without the stiffener) and attached them to the side (a bit like a flapper hat) and I had such a lot of compliments they also came decorated with beads or sparkle (I like sparkle) I had over a dozen I also bought two fringes the same colour as my hair attached them to a band, one on the front one on the back, you couldn't tell I lost my hair even my neighbours couuldn't tell and it made me happy.. so who cares? Of course I looked like a monk underneath my hat (no offence to monks but of course theirs is by choice) When my lovely young bald postman "Simon" came I would answer the door whip off my head covering and shout "SNAP" and we both would fall about like smash men LOL "happy hat day" lots of love x G x

[MargaretJ in reply to Hidden]

Love it Gwyn!

[angelina in reply to Hidden]

Just read this its so funny and I've just remembered I have a false

fringe that I haven't worn but I'll have to find a way of attaching it

to my hats. x

[Hidden in reply to angelina]

If you attach it to a hairband (with Velcro) you can then swap and change your hats without much fuss LOL x G x

[angelina in reply to Hidden]

Thanks I'll give it a try xx

[wendydee in reply to Hidden]

If you do get into a hats theme, let me know and I can email you a lovely photo from last summer. It was late afternoon on the beach and a crowd of Italian youngsters came down with hats and sticks they had been collecting on their walk. They put hats on sticks by the edge of the sea. It looked really artistic, like modern sculptures......imaginative and lovely! I can put the photo at the start of a blog, can't I? Or, if you pm me your email, I can email it to you

Love W xx

[Hidden in reply to wendydee]

When I write a poem on " Hats"I will let you know Wendy but first we are on the December/ Christmas theme haha love x G x

[wendydee in reply to Hidden]

Ho Ho Ho!

[Whippit in reply to Hidden]

very big laughs at that one Gwyn! xxx

[Hidden in reply to angelina]

I forgot the soap and I went into town on Wednesday as well Doh! Thanks for the reminder.. you and Linda have said the same about the soap... so I must give it a try...I feel so old with my hair so thin...it will never be as good as my wig though haha x G x

[angelina in reply to Hidden]

I know the feeling Gwyn but people with lots of hair keep on

telling me not to wear my wig and let the fresh air get to my

head as it will encourage hair growth. Don't know if they are

having a laugh...but anyhow I am giving it a try although I'm

not brave enough to go into shops yet without my hat on.

Love A xx

[Hidden in reply to angelina]

Ooooh I know what you mean there...(people telling you what to do) I sometimes forget I can think for myself...years ago when I was young....I had very oily hair and most people kept telling me that I shouldn't wash it too much.... anyway I tried it their way (it didn't work) and then I woke up..it made me utterly miserable when I hadn't washed my hair.. so then I washed my hair every day and do you know what? whatever others said wasn't true... I still wash it every day... it makes me feel better washing it didn't make it any greasier either..cheers x G x

[citrine]

What a fantastic Christmas present. Last Christmas my sister-in-law did something similar for me when I was bald. She gave me a collection of 5 scarves, all dfferent shapes, sizes and patterns.

I remember my first outing without the wig, 25th July this year, my lovely stepson's 18th birthday. The weather was so hot and I felt the time had come but I did feel so strange. I still have difficulty recognising myself in the mirror though people make kind comments about my bone structure. I have to remind myself how lucky I am to be here, short hair and all.

Enjoy your hats

Love Mary xx

[angelina in reply to citrine]

Hi Mary

Hope you are feeling better....you have had a lot to deal with recently.

The hair thing seems so trivial when we think back to what we've

been through...I find its a constant reminder when looking at myself in

mirror as I'm trying so hard to get back to 'normal' or the 'new normal'

Have a good day..I'm off to choose todays hat for my daily walk along

the coast.

Love Angie xx

[Hidden in reply to angelina]

Funny isn't it. Early on the prospect seems huge then.... It's just gone. Here's to a new normal...

[Archiebanana]

Hi Angie

Well done you! That first outing is the hardest but at the end of the day it is nothing to what else we have to go through. Hold your head up and be proud! I think what upset me most about having no hair was I almost felt it defined me and what I had, but that was silly.My hair is now like an explosion of grey curls....strange but very soft. Will have to get used to losing it again next year.

Have a lovely day hope you have the sun like we do in Kent.

Love Linda xx

[angelina in reply to Archiebanana]

Oh Linda....it is such a shame you have to lose your lovely hair again,

but well worth it in the end. The sun was shinning this morning when

we went for our walk, but the rain is coming later today.

Hope it doesn't cause more land slides on the railways again. My

sister came to stay with us for 2wks....ended up staying 3wks as

she couldn't get a train home due to the flooding...she managed to

get home back in Yorkshire yesterday.

It's lovely and quiet in our house today...she never stops talking LoL

Take care

Angie xx

[Archiebanana]

I know Angie, but it's the price we pay so my wig and hats will all come out again, but that's next year!

Glad your sister got home safely, it must be strange with her gone if she talked a lot lol!

You are so lucky to live in Devon, I stayed near Sidmouth for a week in September and loved it. The whole area is so nice, never stayed until this year.

Have a good week.

Love Linda xx