About three months after my last transplant, I started losing hair by the fistfuls. I would be sitting in class at VCU and there would be long strands of hair all around me on the floor. It was embarrassing. It grew back of course. I never went bald, just thinned. It freaked me out though.
It is happening again. Last time we determined it was a long term reaction to anesthesia. I had forgotten it. I have a sort of tight relationship with my hair, and I don't like seeing it fall out. I'm not 25 anymore so I hope it can grow back again after this. My body has been through a bit, so I have to expect things like this to happen. I might even have to.......CUT IT. *gasp*
There are also some pictures that I haven't posted yet and I am working on it. They are on a CD and I got this new Windows laptop that doesn't have a CD drive. So I have to figure out how to get the pictures on here. I will get those though. They are a pretty good benchmark of what I look like now. I am on it.
But on a brighter note..The University of Iowa published an article about me and this blog! If you haven't read it, I added it to the links on the above right. But it's here too:
http://www.uihealthcare.org/transplant/tonia-kidney/
I love it. It's a great article and it captures a lot of personal things about me.
Matthew and I are traveling back to Iowa in August to see the doctors again and do an in person interview on camera and see what happens. Super exciting!
Hospital Me THEN (2012)
Dance like no one is watching!
Hospital me NOW (2015)
Dance like EVERYONE'S watching
Post Transplant-1 Year (March 2014)
Mi Amor Studio
Pre Dialysis Pinup Shoot (2012)
Dynamite Dames
Mid Dialysis Boudoir (March 2013)
100 pounds, and a week from transplant, chest tube tucked into bra like a lady. ;)
Non-Pinup Me Now (2015)
This girl has four kidneys
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