{"id":4886,"date":"2005-09-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:02:11","slug":"pending_hair_lo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4886","title":{"rendered":"Pending hair loss and bathroom repartee with #2 son"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-body\">\n<p>Hair started to go Thursday &#8211; yesterday morning. Perfect timing 16 days after my first chemo and two days after the second one. Just about as the docs and nurses predicted. I was in the shower at 7AM when some hair on my head started coming out. As I got out, in walked the 8 yr. old &#8211; Tim &#8211; to do his teeth. Now we&#8217;d prepped the boys that I was going to lose my hair, and Joe (our 7th grader) has already been telling his friends. I pointed to the little amount of hair in the shower and said something like &quot;Tim this is the start of my losing my hair.&quot; I am standing there holding a towel with no clothes on &#8211; so he doesn&#8217;t say anything &#8211; but points at my crotch!<\/p>\n<p>So I said, &quot;I don&#8217;t know Tim &#8211; some people lose just the hair on their heads and others lose all their hair &#8211; but in a couple of weeks I might look just like you.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t say a thing. Just went back to brushing his teeth.<\/p>\n<p>I go for my crew cut today &#8211; Friday. Perfect timing.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hair started to go Thursday &#8211; yesterday morning. Perfect timing 16 days after my first chemo and two days after the second one. Just about as the docs and nurses predicted. I was in the shower at 7AM when some hair on my head started coming out. As I got out, in walked the 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9915,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions\/9915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}