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Dear Friends
My image in the mirror, as long as I live will be my reassurance that I’m OK, I’m likeable and acceptable, therefore life is worth living. Especially to a woman, the face and hair, are two of the very few core importance beauty elements that attract most attention and care on an everyday basis.
Signs of tiredness, intense lifestyle and malnutrition, reflect in our face, and most of the times when we need to change our mood into a more joyful one, our hairstylist’s hands will do the magic.
Every health condition, especially a disease, has two aspects : the physical and the psychological one. Cancer is no exception. Talking about the decisive role of positive thinking, on disease’s cure is not our topic here, but spotting the source of our anxiety and uneasiness while certain unpleasant manifestations occur, is essential towards identifying the REAL PROBLEM and effectively coping with it.
Chemotherapy is a treatment option chosen by your oncologist in order to control the spread of cancer cells in your blood stream, therefore eliminate metastases possibilities, or eradicate carcinaemia in cases of recently operated and removed tumors, or aleviate from symptoms that accompany rapidly expanding tumors that are pressing on organs causing dysfunction among other clinical symptoms.
Because Chemotherapy Drugs owe their drastic effectiveness to the fact that they interfere with the cancer cell’s proliferation cycle, in most cases, it is almost impossible to differentiate cancer cells as their target from rapidly dividing healthy cells like those of the hair follicles, the skin, the mouth mucosa , the nails, the endothelium of the gastrointestinal tract, blood, bone marrow, kidneys and liver.
The Chemotherapy Drugs through the blood stream reach every single point of the body and express their activity by “killing”. We will not get into micromolecular analysis details here, but you should know that the hair-loss you’re experiencing due to Chemotherapy, may be an unpleasant effect, but it should be considered “welcomed” in terms of your overall disease’s treatment and its desired results.
Chemotherapy induced Hair-Loss is as temporary as its cause. Once your Chemotherapy Sessions are over, the follicles cells will start dividing again giving birth to new hair which will eventually grow to what is called “chemotherapy hair” in a time-period of six months since your sessions are over.
This new hair is often grey and curly, but pretty soon the quality of the hair returns back to normal and in some cases, depending on your attitude towards caring for yourself, your nutritional habits, and your psychological status, you can help yourself look again MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN EVER !
What we can’t stress enough here, is that each situation derives its principal meaning to us from the way we interpret it and the emotions we choose to link to it. So, if I link my Chemotherapy Hair-Loss to the emotions that overwhelm me when I see my bald image in the mirror, I can’t help myself from getting sunk into a dark blurry sea of absolute despair and helpnessness. But if I link my Chemotherapy Hair-Loss to the emotions of triumph and joy over defeating the disease and securing my health and my Life so I can enjoy everything I want when back to normal soon, then I can practically ignore this temporary situation, shield myself emotionaly against it and use my sense of creativity, aesthetics and humor to overcome it .
In the first option, the disease has totally got me, I’m lost, my psychic energy is being wasted in as many directions as my fears and insecurities. In the second option, I’m the absolute ruler of things, and I deliberately focus my psychic energy towards winning and reaching the desirable results.
We all have experienced times we had to drive our car in a heavy merciless rain, with limited visibility and terrible traffic conditions. But the thought of getting home soon, didn’t let us quit driving and collapsing half way home.
You’ll get home sooner than you think, and everything will be absolutely fine.
Kind Regards
Sophia Stavropoulou
