The Hair – The Journey. – Making of A Diva

The Hair – The Journey.

First day of Chemo 2/23/16

Just got port in few days prior to this 3/5/16.

Hair starting to thin 3/7/16. Best to keep it braided…it was a HOT MESS! Literally one day it just started coming out in lumps

Hair really thinning 3/15/16. This was obviously NOT a good day. Chemo was starting to get pretty rough at this point. And let me point out my head hurt from my hair coming out.

Got it shaved 3/30/16. Fuck that noise! Taking control of the situation.

Then it just fell out all over the place.. At least it was little hairs…..Just about gone 4/30/16. During this time there are no face shots of me bald because we had also just bought a house, moved and something had to give…so this is as good as that got.

5/30/16 next to the last day of Chemo – Losing eyebrows and eyelashes. The last few months were pretty rough. I should have taken a picture of my hands. They were brown and peeling…it was crazy.

6/30/16 a few days after surgery. I felt like one of those hairless cats….Looked like one too!!!! A month after chemo stopped and not a strand of hair on my body. These were probably some of the darkest days. 1 month post chemo

7/30/16 starting to come back. These were my weekly visits to the surgeon days. 2 months post chemo

8/30/16 Actual Hair coming in…feeling pretty bad ass about it. 3 months post chemo

9/30/16 Finally stopped wearing the scarf on my head. 4 months post chemo

10/27/16 Almost done with Radiation. Hair at strange awkward stage. 5 months post chemo

11/7/16 Last day of Radiation. Last day of Treatment

11/30/2016 6 months post Chemo. (Wednesdays we wear pink)

12/29/16. 7 months since last day of chemo. I’m at headband stage because I can now put things in my hair and they stay!

1/31/17 – 8 months since Chemo. Finally got it colored today! No cut though….

2/28/17. 9 months since Chemo. Hair looks darker than it really is here. Bad lighting!

3/30/17 10 months since Chemo. And 1 year since I got my head shaved! Still haven’t gotten it trimmed or anything…just colored. I am wearing a headband so it’s pulled back. But kinda feeling like a hippie.

4/30/17 11 months since chemo. I can almost braid parts of it. It’s out of control and crazy. I have not gotten anything trimmed or cut yet. Still not sure I’ll ever cut it again. The thickness is a little less than it was before but not real noticeable. It’s getting better. Still really curly. I actually blow it out to straighten it. I’ll have to get a “natural” picture. But nice to not have to really use a curling iron yet.

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Erika Sherek

November 1, 2016

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5 responses to “The Hair – The Journey.”

gingerfires

December 1, 2016 at 8:42 am

Talk to me.

Color. Texture. Wave? Curl? It seem like it all changed? Yes? No? Maybe? Besides being bald, was this the shortest you ever had it? You rock short rather well if your latest incarnation. How do we feel about Carol Brady mullet? Did I miss when you went purple? You’re at Madonna True Blue length. Comment?

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1. Erika
  
  December 1, 2016 at 10:21 am
  
  Color. Well it’s changing. Came in light and straight. Lots of grey! Then as it gets longer it’s getting curlier and darker. I would think the longer it gets it will start to straighten out a bit. But I still haven’t colored it yet. I’ll probably wait a little longer before I start to process the hair again. Have you ever in the 40 some years you have known me seen me with short hair? No. you haven’t. Shoulder length is the shortest. (except for that one time in 4th grade when mom cut my hair real short because I got gum stuck in it….I cried for weeks) I’m not particularly fond of the short hair at all. But it came back so that’s good. No Carol Brady mullet! I went purple for a day during the big cancer celebration we had. It was just temporary color. Yeah…my many lengths of Madonna now…(Or heat miser if it was red!!!)
  
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  1. gingerfires
    
    December 1, 2016 at 10:24 am
    
    How have your fans taken to the Madonna-esk “Open Your Heart” style? Have you gotten haters who think you’ve kicked Madonna off her pole? How do you deal with the controversy? Has Gaga contacted you yet?
Anonymous

December 1, 2016 at 8:38 pm

Your 8/30/16 pic- I love your hair here! You totally ROCK it short like that!
A friend of mine went through chemo recently- started with bright blonde hair, ended with salt & pepper hair. Looks way awesome!
Glad you’re bouncing back!

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gingerfires

April 30, 2017 at 3:59 pm

Love how you’ve risen to the challenges of HAIR! Lol!

Self preservation really it a motivating factor in endurance.

When my back went out and I was already two days in at the hospital without a showeror change of clothes, the first thing I wanted was my simplest of vanity BACK! I wanted to be clean! I wanted to look healthy! I wanted to be f*cking normal again – or my best version of normal. I was so amazed how simple vanity was apart of that! But it was! The minute I could stand I got out of that prison hospital, took my first f*cking shower (after a week without) and I felt 5% of my life was taken back!

The chronicles of hair – the evolution of hair through cancer and chemo – you light a torch at the end of a long, dark tunnel… but you let others know that if they can see the light, there’s a way OUT!

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