Hair Loss

With each Chemotherapy drug there is about an 80% chance that the patient will lose their hair.  Karlee made it through almost all the drugs before it happened to her.  Doxorubicin was the drug that sparked Karlee’s hair loss.

Her hair loss came on very suddenly today.  Overnight she didn’t lose any hair on her pillow, but when she go up this morning Mom noticed that after holding her for a while that Mom was covered in hair.  Around noon Karlee was running her fingers through her hair and started pulling out some pretty impressive clumps of hair.  She stood in the middle of the floor playing with her hair with a big grin on her face and Dad standing there with the camera taking pictures.  We quickly decided that it was time to shave her head instead of letting her hair start to look like a disaster.  We had talked to Karlee from the start of this journey about her losing her hair.  She was looking forward to shaving her hair when it started to fall out so it was not a traumatic experience.
 
We dug out the clippers and very quickly had all her hair laying on the floor in the kitchen.  She was really good about getting her hair cut and Ryley was really interested in watching the hair come off.  She had a quick bath to wash the hair off and was quickly telling us she was beautiful.  Fortunately she has the head to be bald… just like her Dad.

We spent a little time this afternoon working in Ryley’s closet.  We added 6 new shelves down one side and removed the hanging shelves that never worked as well as they should have.  Once we finished up the closet looked much better and his clothes were easier to get at.