I just used squares. I didn't do a pattern. I wasn't sure what was going to work. I ended up getting a yard cut and then trimmed it down. I want to say it ended up being a 24 inch square, but I really can't remember. I took the yard and tied it around my head and looked to see what I liked. Then I would trim some and keep on going until I found the size that worked. I used all sorts of cotton fabrics and if they were thin or had holes or something, I lined them. This was great when I was in the office. The air conditioning made it really cold. I just turned the edges over and sewed them. Actually, my mom and my grandmother helped with that too. They really like being involved. It was something they could "do". Since this is something you can't fix or do anything about.

I will tell you that even though my hair grows really fast (even did before chemo), it seemed to take a long time, but it's going from a buzz cut to something. I took the scarves off the minute I had real hair. I really didn't care what people thought at that point.

I'm not sure which is the best route for your job interviews. If it's a marketing/sales position, I would have to say wig. I hate it that people are that biased about things. Go with your gut!!

Good luck!

I hated losing my hair, it was one of the hardest things for me to endure while going thru the chemo.  I had RCHOP X 6 and it ended on 10/30/08. There were days when i really wanted to cry, but i just kept on going.  I mainly wore ball caps, my husband ordered me several different colors so I could change them based on what I was wearing.  I got used to wearing them and after a while I finally found some acceptance of my "new" look and thought if anyone doesn't like the way i look then that is their problem.  But i still hated it. I did get a wig, (my mom insisted on it), but it turned out that i was allergic to it so i didn't even wear it but a few times.

But now I am 6 months out of chemo and i do have new hair.  I mean new, it is a different texture and is wavy....  It is still shorter than I would like, but it is starting to help me feel more like my old self.  I have a friend starting Chemo on Friday and her onc tells her she will lose her hair and I am trying to help her out by showing her that there is something to look forward to, it does come back.....

Have fun with it when it comes back, play with the color and style, try and look at it as a new beginning....  I know that it is hard being bald, I do feel your pain.  But please have faith and remember it will come back.

SusieQ

I'm so sorry this is traumatic for you and how any one of us may 'cope' isn't necessarily something that will work for anyone else.  I feel your pain though because during my first chrome dome period, I wouldn't be caught out the door w/o a wig on - didn't care how hot or itchy or uncomfortable it was (and it was most of the time....), I couldn't let anyone see me..... <gasp!>... looking like a cancer patient by wearing a scarf or ballcap .... or worse.....  BALD!   I think I was actually embarassed I had cancer and only those in my closest inner circle could see me w/o the wig.

Had a change of heart with chrome dome period #2 (which was 3 yrs later) and I decided wigs were too much of an annoyance and I would go with hats/caps.  Well I made it thru but not without a daily headache plus looking just plain silly in hats cos I just don't have the face for those!  And how the heck do you tie those scarves to make them all pretty anyway?  I can barely accesorize - what do I know about scarves???  lol

Chrome dome period #3 came quickly on the heels of #2 (relapsed again just as my hair was barely starting to sprout).  And that time I said "hair....shmair.... I don't care!"  No wigs, no caps, no scarves....  yes.... I dared.... to go.... TOPLESS!!  LOL  Well except for the times I knew I would be out in the sun for more than just a few minutes.  Living in the desert with a bald head???  That can mean a really painful sunburn on the scalp and I had enough to deal with already.  lol

You know what?  That was truly my "aha moment" and I finally knew...deep inside...that I wasn't going to be defined by my cancer and that by going out in public, just as I was, shining scalp and all....I was basically taking back one small measure of control over my out of control situation!  I wasn't going to even try to hide the fact I was going thru chemo.  Screw cancer!  I was defined by who I was inside - not outside.  I was defined by my attitude and I had a boat load of it.  LOL

No one seemed to mind my baldness one bit.  No one stood with mouths open and staring at me like I had lizards coming out of my nostrils.  No children screamed in terror and ran behind their mother's skirt.  No cattle stampeded....  LOL  pretty much no one at work, or church, or when I was out shopping really was any different toward me.  Except some times when I'd be out, perfect strangers may look my way and give me that "knowing" nod and smile...they'd been there too.  Or when in line at a checkout a conversation would  be struck up at times about the trials of chemo.   My co-workers seemed more comfortable with asking direct questions about my cancer and treatments.

Now that I'm smackdab in the middle of chrome dome period #4 - well 90% chrome dome, what's left is buzzed super short - it's the same.  No caps/scarves/wigs.  It's more comfortable for me and when I'm comfortable, I can make others more comfortable around me.

So that's how I "coped".  I went from wanting to totally be in denial and cover up my situation to liberating myself and taking back a wee bit of control over this stinkin' disease!  Screw cancer.....I have you.... you don't have ME!

Sharon