shave my head for cancer

i have wanted to do this for years now i fill its right for me to do this i have a choice to keep my hair but what about all the people and children who dont have a choice so i am determaned to shave my head for cancer! ! ! !

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ive always wanted to do it
i think its a beautiful thing to sacrifice something so aesthetically important
but im not sure i feel brave enough
i know that ill get teased
on one hand i dont want people thinking im a dyke
or i have cancer
but then
its their problem isnt it?
if their too closed minded to realise its for something more than just looks.

i dont know :S

And it was so much fun seeing as a whole group of us did this together on Saturday morning and we were cheered on by the crowd of volunteers doing the shaving :)

Definitely worth it.

time I’ll be shaving my head for cancer. I must admit I’ve had some second thoughts about this during the past few months – mainly because my mother has really been on my case not to do it. _{My mother is one of those people who are very concerned with what other people will think of her daughter walking around without hair…} We’ve had some vicious arguments regarding this matter with phrases like “attention seeking” and “idiotic” popping up regularly. This hurt me quite a bit… Does she really think I’m shaving my head TWO WEEKS BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY and at the start of autumn for shits and giggles??

Anyway, I’ve discussed it with the boy. He shaves his head in the annual Shavathon every year, and he told me to tell her that one doesn’t do this kind of thing to compliment your look. People who lose their hair when receiving chemotherapy don’t feel good about the way they look. They are shy and feel self-conscious. So last week, when my mom started her latest assault, I told her all of this, and that I’m shaving my head in sympathy with cancer sufferers everywhere – and she backed off :)

I don’t expect to look great without hair – I had a dream about two months ago in which I looked like a Beluga whale :/ _{I don’t look so hot as a whale…} But I’m doing this, come hell or high water. And luckily I won’t be the only one in the house without hair, because my darling will be getting rid of his thick, black curls along with me :)

I did this! I had been a really active volunteer, (including taking a cancer victim to hospital sometimes for her treatments, among other things) but then an injury made me a lot less mobile then I had been previously. (No driving, limited movement, etc.)

What to do instead that was going to be useful….? Oh yes! Shave my head for cancer! I had hair, I was looking a bit funny anyway what with all the shuffling and pained expressions, it was easy!

Felt a bit guilty though, because it was actually easier for me to not lift my arms up to brush hair, and I had an excuse to wear beanies to work. Does it still count if it makes your own life easier I wonder?

So my friend Anne-Lett’s aunt has just been diagnosed with lung cancer (4 years after she beat the crap out of breast cancer) and Annie wants to donate her hair next year. I’ve agreed to do this with her, not only because she needs the emotional support, but because I believe it is a worthy cause and also because my one grandma had pancreatic cancer years ago. I never thought I’d enter my 30th year on this planet with as much hair as I entered it, but hey – it grows back :)

_{Just a funny little aside – our friend Fred is getting married in March, and Annie, Manie and I will all be bald at the reception. Should be funny :)}

Shavathon

I did it the 10th of june, and my hair is slowly but surely growing back…I didnt think it was such a big deal because it was a choice to shave my hair, whereas cancer patients didnt have that choice. So i was very proud to be contributing to the cause, its totally worth doing it..Plus people have been telling me i look better bald! (name drop: Natalie portman!)

I did it about a year ago it was one of the hardest and best things i felt i have ever done. I was so attatched to my hair but when i found out that my school was having a head shave for cancer i new it was somthing i had to do.

I’ll be shaving my head for cancer on April 2, 2007 on the University of Saskatchewan campus!! If you’re in the aread, come show ur support!

my hair is currently really bad so i am thinking of doing this. i have always wanted to do it, just now i might do it sooner. my motives may be a little off, but i still think it is a really great thing to do for someon else.
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