Thanks for the good wishes - I'm fine now (touches wood). The texture change may be linked to it's being much greyer now! Everything else seems pretty normal though my eyelashes and eyebrows are still a bit sparse. Incidentally I lost all my body hair except - to add insult to injury - the hair on my legs, so I still had to shave them.
Short hair looks ok on me but I do regret the versatility of long hair which you can wear up, down, tied back etc. What I was trying to say is, don't cut it off until you have some reason to do it - age alone has nothing to do with it!
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My hair is ridiculously fine and fairly thin, so I can do nothing with it. I've invested about a tenner in three clip-on hair pieces (in different shades to match my various hair colours) and they look okay. I only wear them on nights out, but I've been complimented on them and asked where I had my hair done, which is a novelty for me! I just tell the truth, I'm not embarrassed at all, just pleased that they "pass" 
henbane - just to let you know the post chemo texture may well return to normal in time. I had chemo 20+ years ago and the first couple of yrs afterwards my hair was all frizzy tight curls with lots of grey coming in at the front and top. Made me look like an old granny and I was only 38 so I dyed it, blow dried it and grew it long again. Over the years the texture has softened , the curls have turned into waves and now I've stopped colouring I realise the grey has hardly increased at all . Eyebrows were always sparse anyway so no change there! The chemo experience is one of the reasons I revel in having it longish now and will never have it short again unless it gets really thin or I can no longer look after it long. Good luck with everything
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