February 2020 Blog a Day - Day 4
Favorite body part (photos encouraged)
Being that this is World Cancer Day and I almost never post photos of myself. Top is me and my hair before (with @puffypie), middle, when I shaved my head during chemo in 2018. Bottom, now with gray hair that’s actually growing in rather brilliantly from a cheap, but clever, $7. haircut I got in Northern Vietnam last year.
I’ve been fortunate to have inherited the genes for good hair which is lucky because I don’t know shit about styling tools/potions/brushes and whatnot. I work from home on a farm so being all fancy isn’t a requirement as the chickens don’t care, and the peacocks are vain to notice.
Being light-haired all my life it was a shock that my hair came in fully dark and gray (it still doesn’t match up the the me inside). I haven’t decided if I will keep it or try something else?
Now that I see the shaved head photo I kind of miss how easy that was - plus empowering — I felt like I was channeling both a lady truck driver and an art critic (but I’d need big jewelry).
A huge nod of thanks to the folks who so normalized shaved heads on women I was rarely asked if I had cancer even though I almost never wore a scarf or a hat. Made the cancer journey that much easier not having to explain.
Wait, is hair a body part...?