Photo Diary

2000 / This is what I looked like before I had cancer. I was always called "the girl with the hair." I told my doctor I would do anything but lose my trademark hair. She told me to chose my hair or my life. I wisely chose to lose my hair.2000 / This is what I looked...

Nov 2000 / Who am I? Hello is Sheril there? Wig shopping was awful. The attendant in one store told me that I would never get a wig as long as my hair nor would I be able to match my curl pattern. He told me I needed to cut my hair and to do it now. He tried to sell...

2001 / This is me in the first wig I bought. I felt OK in it. It wasn't exactly what I wanted but I could deal with it. On one break in between chemo and surgery I went to Italy for a few days to LIVE and forget about being a cancer patient. I was afraid that everyone...

June 2001 / I am pretty sick in this photo -- right in the thick of it. I had surgery, and a few months of chemo. A few days after this photo, I went into the hospital for my Bone Marrow Transplant. It's not the best "hair day" but I don't look that healthy either. I...

Oct 2001 / My nephew Jordan and I were very attached. He was "the thing" I was most afraid of losing. I wrote a children's book called Jordan's Big Day because I was afraid I was going to die and he would not remember me in years to come. He was only 3. He is the...

Jan & March 2004 /Chemo, Surgery, Bone Marrow Transplant, Radiation, and Immunology shots all ended in January 2002. It appeared that there was going to be life after cancer but was there going to be hair after cancer? As soon as my counts were normal I returned...

Thoughts to share - Wearing a wig can be emotional. Wearing one can also be your secret salvation. With it you can look normal and be a person and not a cancer patient going to the grocery store or to a movie. You just have to get your psyche around wearing them. They...