June 6, 2017: Day + 197

Lee and Doug after his first haircut following HSCT

Today was another important day for us.  Seven months ago Lee cut Doug's hair in preparation for Doug to go through chemotherapy. That was his last haircut. We knew it was likely that he would loose his hair and so we wanted to be prepared for that before leaving for Mexico.  And sure enough, after the stem cell transplant Doug began loosing his hair.  In fact, he lost all of it with the exception of his white hair.  He had a lot more dark hair than white hair. That means he was pretty much bald with the exceptions of small clumps of white hair.

It took months, but his hair did to begin to grow back, only much curlier than before.  He is happy that he has at least as much dark hair as before chemotherapy.  It was getting so long in the back that I told him he might want to just let it grow a while and get an earring. It might be a whole new look for him.  But no, he insisted on a hair cut.  And so we returned to Lee to do the honors.

It was a beautiful day here today. We waited outside on Lee's patio while he finished up with a customer.  He came out to greet us and said that he could cut Doug's hair outside and so we stayed outside and enjoyed the lovely weather while Lee trimmed away.

Lee has been a terrific support. He agreed to give a portion of every hair cut/color to Doug's Dollars for Doug account if they mentioned the blog and Doug's name.  In his shop he has a glass vase  for donations.  We are so grateful for his help and support. I highly recommend Lee to everyone.  He is a great stylist and great person.  Below is more information on how to make an appointment with Lee. We hope you will consider making your next hair appointment with Lee. Thank you Lee for your thoughtfulness and care for us

And so we pray:

Holy Spirit, we give thanks for your presense with us.  We thank you for people who hear your call to action and respond to it.  We thank you for putting people like Lee on our path who make the road easier and more pleasureable.  We thank you for the opportunity to celebrate milestones along the way on our journey.  We thank you for new life.  Amen

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