As was somewhat expected, Tim began to lose his hair about 2 weeks after the first round of chemo. All three meds indicate hair loss as a potentail side effect but I think it's pretty much 100% certain with the three drug combo. Anyway, Tim was losing it not in clumps but many many strands when running fingers through his hair. So it was time to shave it off.
New territory of course so we decided to buzz it really short so as not to get the remaining hair stuck under the scalp. Over the next few days most of those little stubbies fell out. But the surprise was that some new hair grew in its place. Not a lot though and the new hair is very light in color. This probably won't stay very long since the week 4 treatment will likely cause those new hairs to fall out.
Tim's cousin felt the need as did myself to get the close buzz cut. The picture on the right is Tim and myself after my haircut. The picture on the left is Tim's cousin John with his new "do". He also sports the wrist band he had made in support of Tim. It's really cool and a number of them have made it out to friends.
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