Bald is beautiful, but....
Betsy continues to write with sensitivity and passion about cancer and its effect on both the patient and family member.
Her vignette about baldness---her own, as well as that of a friend---secondary to chemotherapy is filled with emotion. Bald is indeed beautiful.
But, think.. Perhaps, if a patient with lymphoma could take radioimmunotherapy (RIT) with only a short course of chemotherapy, there would be no hair loss at all. My therapy for Stage IV non-Hodgkin's lymphoma consisted of Rituxan, 3 cycles of CHOP chemotherapy and, finally, RIT in the form of Zevalin.
I believe that I did not lose a single day of work---and did not lose any hair--due to the short chemotherapy regimen.
Yet, I agree... bald is beautiful.
Mort