Bald Again For Breast Cancer
Feb. 23rd, 2011 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayfurrIt's that time of the year again: time to shave my head and post a video. This idea isn't new -- I've done it each of the last four years. Last year I shaved it early and kept it shaved for months, staying bald until after the Boston and Twin Cities walks. At some point I got really, really tired of shaving my head and let it grow back and that's why you see photos of me at the Tampa Bay 3-Day with short, but visible, hair. :)
This year I plan to keep it shaved at least until the Atlanta 3-Day in October. After that, we'll see. But that means shaving it every day from February until October -- and my hair grows fast. It's not a time savings over shampooing and combing, that's for sure.
I do this to show solidarity with those fighting breast cancer. As you almost certainly know, chemotherapy and radiation treatments generally rob cancer victims of their hair -- not that a proud and confident and bald breast cancer survivor isn't any less beautiful for having a smooth scalp.
So I support those people who are bald, but definitely not by choice, with my own baldness. My baldness won't cure breast cancer and neither will my walking, but perhaps it'll help convince people who might otherwise doubt my commitment to donate toward treatment for those currently fighting the disease and toward research to find a cure. If that happens, then having a bald head in the bleak Vermont midwinter will be totally worth it.
This year I plan to keep it shaved at least until the Atlanta 3-Day in October. After that, we'll see. But that means shaving it every day from February until October -- and my hair grows fast. It's not a time savings over shampooing and combing, that's for sure.
I do this to show solidarity with those fighting breast cancer. As you almost certainly know, chemotherapy and radiation treatments generally rob cancer victims of their hair -- not that a proud and confident and bald breast cancer survivor isn't any less beautiful for having a smooth scalp.
So I support those people who are bald, but definitely not by choice, with my own baldness. My baldness won't cure breast cancer and neither will my walking, but perhaps it'll help convince people who might otherwise doubt my commitment to donate toward treatment for those currently fighting the disease and toward research to find a cure. If that happens, then having a bald head in the bleak Vermont midwinter will be totally worth it.
