It's hard to imagine really what it's like to lose your hair.  Men frequently lose their hair as part of an ageing process, but for women hair has always been considered to be their crowning glory.  But with chemotherapy treatments, keeping your crowning glory is often a challenge.  Of course, not all chemotherapy agents make you lose your hair, but sadly many do and all too often this can be distressing for many women. In fact, so distressing at times, women can be reluctant to undergo necessary treatments for fear of coping with hair loss.  So how do women cope?

So, if you are like our wonderful GO Girl, Karen, you might decide to take control and shave it off.  You can argue that taking control, when you are floating in a world that all of a sudden is out of control, can be empowering.  Then there's always the wigs - so much better now - and the numerous head attire and scarves. Karen used a variety of head covers and scarves, but as the summer days are dawning she has decided to give her "heid an airing" as she would describe it.  And I don't think Karen looks any less beautiful now than she did before.  

Of course, hair will grow back and for those who have never coped with hair loss, that may seem all too easy to say, when you have never had to face this challenge.  But many GO Girls do say just this. For them, they know the treatments are difficult and they know they inevitably cause hair loss, but for them fighting the cancer overrides this.  So by taking control and deciding how they will look without hair is something they can choose to manage - they cannot choose not to have cancer but can still take control over how they look!  So at the end of the day it's all in the heid (as the Scots would say).

GO Girl, Marian, has made some amazing snuggle hats - you can see her sporting one of her designs on "Our Stories" page and they have become quite a trendsetter with the GO Girls.

No matter what, the GO Girls will support you - you will still be and are beautiful to us!