Accelerated puberty

 Well puberty didn't last long.

I can report that post-chemo my hair is now bursting to come back. I have gone through all that downy teen awkwardness in a flash, like the DeLorean in Back to the Future.

By now I am getting on for my early 20s when stubble had become a boring fact of life. "Will they notice at work if I give it a miss this morning?" To which the perpetual reply has to be this:

"You'd worry much less what people thought of you if you only realised how infrequently they did it."

But because our bodies are very good at bouncing back, and they always want to get back to their usual equilibrium, I know that all my systems are now set to 'reset', hair included.

 I understand that for a small number of chemo patients this regrowth doesn't happen, and I feel that is a horrible extra insult to injury. I also know from talking to chemo buddies that hair loss seems much more upsetting, even traumatic, for women and girls. We have all kinds of cultural bindings to hair, and especially to and around female hair. 

But mine is sprouting very enthusiastically so I have just invested in a stick of Turkish shaving soap, which will be hard pressed till I let a beard grow again.

But as this takes some time, like they used to say on Blue Peter, I'll show you one I made earlier

Patriarch, here I come.