Is that a Wig? I didn't know.

Exactly 14 days after my first chemo treatment I started slowely loosing my hair. June 30th was myt first treatment. July 3rd I got my hair cut short. A week and a half later my hair slowly started coming out. Just strand by strand. Then I started loosing a lot when I took my shower. It would stick to me and fill up the drain. I was picking it up from all over. It was in my apartment and in my car. Then it started coming out in clumps. The process of loosing my hair was very long and probably the most traumatic part of my illness. I was still hoping and praying that I would not loose it. For that reason, I waited too long to go get fitted for the wig. But God intervened. I had to make an appointment for the fitting and ended up waiting 5 days. When I got to the appointment I was at a point of hair loss (I have always had thick hair even as a child so it was so strange to have very thin hair where you could see my scalp) that I could not wait the 7-10 days for the wig. The first wig the woman tried on me looked so much like my hair color (just a bit darker and actually really accented my already very blue eyes). I was told if I liked it I could take it then. What a blessing not to have to wait. I left work with very thin hair and returned with the wig on 45 minutes later. I do feel like I have a hat on all the time but it is starting to feel more part of me. At my Dad's funeral I kept being concerned about loosing it when people hugged me. I am now used to my head without the hair BUT I am blessed because at least at this point I still have some of my hair (some long pieces and especially in the back) which might go with the new drugs I start on on August 25th. I have many people who have no idea it is a wig and are very surprised. The scalp looks very natural. Some think I had it made with my own hair. Some say I should dye my hair this color when it grows back. I went in a week later and had the woman thin out the top and cut bangs. Many think I have a really nice new hair cut and think I should keep my hair like this when it grows back. Hard to believe that my first chemo I had long hair (middle of back), 2nd chemo short hair, 3rd chemo the wig. Waiting to see how it grows back. People say it will probably grow back curly (never had curly hair in my life). One friend of mine said that it will probaby come back curly until it remembers that it was straight before and then straightens it self out.