Hair loss
A Story I Needed to Share
by OH Member: Southernlawgrl
I had been worrying like crazy about my hair loss with this surgery. I found myself often depressed and crying about losing my locks. Last Monday, my husband (who is active duty) went to talk to a troop of Girl Scouts who sent his command care packages throughout his last deployment. While sitting in the chair, listening to his stories and answers to endless little girl questions, I noticed a young girl walk into the room late. She sat down and I couldn’t get over how sad she looked and she didn’t remove her hat like many of the other girls did. I kept glancing back to her wondering why a child so young wasn’t as excited and giggly as the other girls. My husband wrapped up his questions and answers and took the girls into the gym to show them how to heat a meal ready to eat (MRE), but again this little girl stayed behind.
I sat in the chair speaking to a lady who was thanking me, when the little girl came over to me. She looked at me and the sadness in her eyes was so clear. She told me I had the most beautiful hair, and reached out and touched it and smiled. Her mother came over and apologized and told me she had a fascination with hair. I assured her it was fine. Smiling at the little girl I asked her if she was looking forward to getting out of school for the Christmas holiday. She told me she didn’t go to school because she was very sick from radiation. She pulled back her cap and she had lost all her hair. I found out from the mother and little girl that she is stage 4 with lung cancer and her radiation isn’t working. She is only nine years old and they aren’t giving her much of a chance to make it.
I sat and talked to the girl and her mother for about 30 minutes and realized that night that she was placed in front of me for a reason. When the little girl left, she threw her hands around my neck and hugged me. It melted my heart. You know some of us worry about things like losing our hair, a little excess skin, and things that really aren’t as devastating as losing our battle with something we can’t control. Now, I am looking at the hair loss a lot different and it isn’t as bad as I once thought, because I know my hair will grow back. This little girl, she is facing so much more. It is amazing what is put in front of us to make us understand there is so much more to life.
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