Re: anti baldacious-Cheryl

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Cheryl,

How soon will you be receiving your transplant? Will you have a Carepage for us

to offer support to you? My thoughts and prayers are with you. It may be a

rough journey, but I know you will have the strength to push on. Your new life

is soon to begin.

God's Blessings,

Jackie S.

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From: thornton_cheryl <thornton_cheryl@...>

Sent: Wed, February 10, 2010 8:51:03 PM

Subject: Re: [ ] anti baldacious

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I am headed to transplant soon and will lose my hair to the large amounts of

chemo...my son and husband are planning to shave their heads with me in

solidarity - my daughter is not willing and that's ok - she has long beautiful

brown hair...I didn't think I would find this prospect hard to do, but now that

the time is getting closer I think I will be sad to lose my hair - but I guess

better that than my life...right now my hair is fast turning grey from the cml

and I won't be sad to see that go...

Cheryl

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> > Everyone's journey is different and you have a right to your feelings, no

matter what they are. This campaign was started by a person who did lose her

hair to chemo. She has been in remission for 3 years, but when she was going

through chemo she decided to lose her hair on her terms so she had a party ,Â

during which she shaved her hair and also a number of her friends who joined her

in solidarity. They raised 20,000 dollars . The idea is to show love and

solidarity to those who do have to lose their hair. I've sweated and cramped

my way  through two half marathons with my low oxygen delivery system because

of my low hemoglobin (just dropped again to 9.7)  and shaving my head is

alot less taxing for me, but still a way to continue to raise money for the

LLS. Â

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> I agree with you China, that many people have family or friends that shave off

their hair in support of their chemo hair loss, and they see it as a postive

thing....the cancer patient is not isolated and alone in this but has the

support of others. And then they have the option of wearing wild hats (I had

what I called my 'cancer hat' when I had pretty significant interferon

thinning.... and I never wear a hat! ended up I did not tolerate the inf. that

long, too toxic), or colorful scarves, etc.

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> I think it goes with the saying....when you have lemons, make lemonade. I

would support any of you that are willing to shave your locks, draw attention to

yourself and use that for the good cause of raising funds for research, etc. I

have not read the L & L Soc. information about this yet, but I will take a look at

it and I expect that it is not intended to offend anyone....it is for those who

feel fine doing this.

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> I hope you brave souls will post some photos of your best bald headed smiles!!

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> C.

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