PawPaw Takes One for the Team.

Posted by Daddy:
As Kristen mentioned in a day or two ViviAnne's hair may be completely gone. Kristen has cut her hair short again to minimize the trauma of losing it (if at all possible). Pawpaw stopped by the Barbershop on the way home from work today to show her it's no big deal.

The sight freaked her and Cooper out at first. But they eventually warmed up to his new do (or lack there of). ViviAnne has for the most part only really noticed the little girls at the clinic/hospital whose hair has fallen out. Her little mind couldn't figure it out and she always assumed these little bald kids were boys. We always carefully explained in those instances that these were pretty little girls too and that their medicine just made their hair fall out. And that it was okay because it would grow back when they weren't sick anymore.

Within 15-20 minutes tonight, she got it (kind of). She was reassuring everyone, "It's still PawPaw, he just has little girl hair now."

Later tonight, she woke up crying. Referring to something about little babies she must have been dreaming about and how she hated her hair. This is obviously only a temporary yet very emotional visual manifestation of what is going on inside her poor little body. Once again there is nothing that I can say or do to make it better or fix it. We just have to go on like it's no big deal.