The Cancer Project #7 - Hair
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- After chemo #2 my hair started coming out. I knew I was going to lose it but the loss came barreling at me against my will. So I took a few minutes to make this video, tell you how it feels, and say a tearful good-bye to my hair.
One thing I forgot to say: "Hair, I'm sorry for any day I said you didn't look good or that it was a bad hair day. Truth is I'd do anything to have my worst hair day back."
Later this week, we documented me shaving my head. Make sure you check that out.
Issy is my stylist and colorist at Gleam, when I have hair. www.gleamsalon...
I get my cancer care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: www.mskcc.org
This is the seventh in my series on my Stage 2 breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and the project of healing from it. Tanya Wills is a home birth midwife in NYC and the owner of Manhattan Birth where she and her team provide heartfelt, down-to-earth, no-purple-crystals childbirth preparation, parenting support, and advanced doula trainings to an awesome community. You can find out more at www.manhattanb....
you are speaking my mind....thankyou
You're not alone. Sending you so much support.
@@Tanya_Wills thankyou I need it, youy were reading my mind and I feel that same way you are. I am just starting Taxol and have 2 kids as well. Its so tough and after seeing you you encouraged me that what im going through is normal. Bless youy:)
This is the first I’ve heard about cold-capping. I have heard of people using ice on extremities like hands or feet? Thanks, as ever, for these videos - and for using your voice with such honesty and openness.
Yes and I've got a friend who is doing it now (different chemo regimen) and so far it's working for her! She has such nice hair, too! I love everyone's hair.
Hi Tanya, I just started catching up on these videos and I am so grateful for the powerful truths you are sharing with us.
I'm so sorry you had to lose your hair. It's not fair and it sucks.
You've always really inspired me and I was so glad to run into you at Once On This Island -- you felt more like a celebrity to me than the people onstage! Looking forward to seeing your gorgeous pixie cut, and every version of you in between.
Olivia xo
OMGosh! Olivia thank you. I'm using my down days to catch up on Sister Wives and other funsies! Thanks for following me!
I also breastfed and here I am... thanks for spreading the message!
Hang in there! I’m about to release my 1 year update. It’s a journey. You are not alone 👊🏼💕
Love you, Tanya. Thank you for sharing your raw, real self with us so others can benefit and feel heard and understood.
Love you too Aimee! I don’t think I’ll cry for my headscarves, but I’ll thank them someday, too. And my earrings, when I go back to the boring ones.
Love you Tanya. Your hair is beautiful and you cry all you want to. You’re amazing and beautiful and inspiring. RIP Tanya’s hair and I can’t wait to see it again in 6 months. ❤️❤️❤️
It's like an elegy to my hair!
Manhattan Birth I’ll sing a requiem for it later!
I love you. I am sorry. You are so beautiful and you will keep being beautiful no matter what.
Thank you hair for making Tanya feel pretty. We are sorry you have to go for now. We honor the joy you have brought Tanya all of these years. Thank you for being lovely. We will miss you with Tanya for a little while and I am sure we will celebrate your return when you are ready.
This means so much. I know you get it. ❤️❤️
Hey Tanya! Hats, scarves, wigs, and bald are all great options. I wonder if you have thought about henna on your head. A friend of mine did that in her own “cancer project” and it was amazing and, it seemed, very meaningful. If that resonates with you, I could perhaps connect the two of you. Thinking of you often.
Oh this is a great idea!! Too cold right now to leave my head uncovered but maybe when it gets warmer!
Thank you for your videos ❤️ I wish I had found them a few months ago when my journey started but so glad I found them now. I found my cancer while breastfeeding my second child. It means a lot to me to hear your story as I am about to have surgery and start AC, all after 12 rounds of Taxol.
You’ve got this! I’m two years out of treatment and taking my exemestane and lupron now. My body isn’t the same but it’s healing every single day. I’m grateful for all I learned. And I keep my hair short!
You're still cute and we still love you. You if anybody can and will do this SHIT.
And, shit it is. Lots of love!