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Today whilst playing a game of poker where drinking was involved, a friend went to get up and somehow took a nice clump of my hair along with him which hurt not only physically, but was rather distressing. I'd say he had a nice handful of about 20 hairs or more.
Has anything like this happened to anyone else?
Well, not exactly that. But last week was a real hair trauma.
I'm participating in a sleep study at the local medical school--well, more like an insomnia study. I worked hard to get into the study for nearly a year after first being rejected.
Three weeks into the study, last week I had my first two nights sleeping in the lab. What I was not prepared for was the preparation. They want people to be freshly showered (Fine, no problem, I like being freshly showered myself.) but you cannot use any hand, body, skin, face or *HAIR* conditioner.
Took me over 20 minutes to comb-out and despite being careful, so much hair snapped and broke off, I had a pile the size of a small dog. (Okay, maybe a hamster.)
Then, of course, there's the gluing 32 electrodes all over one's body, but mostly on the face and scalp. Well, the gluing them on part isn't bad--it's the removing them in the morning part that's the problem.
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And preparing for that second night, my hair spontaneously started to dread. I considered just going with it, but, I'm a middle-aged, bald white guy, and it's probably not the best look for me. You know?
And did I mention I have to this all over again in 10-12 weeks?
The damage is all over and it's made things pretty ugly, (and I'll listen to, but won't agree with, arguments that mid-back hair on a middle-aged bald guy is ugly to begin with.) Some sort of repair is urgently required, but I don't have good scissors or the lighting, vision and coordination to use them.
Now, the only person I've trusted with my hair since growing it out is in Toronto--five hours by train, overnight in a hotel, and five hours back home. I can't afford the time away from my business right now. So I'm going out on a limb.
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Yikes!
This is a really shocking story. I hope you get the problem rectified. So basically you need conditioner every time you wash your hair, fair enough, but i didn't think that it would screw your hair up if you missed out once or twice.
Well, my hair is really fine--that is the hair shafts are smaller in diameter than most people's, and even though it's straight, it tangles and frizzes easily. I'm thinking that the conditioner is doing what it's supposed to, which is to control accumulated damage. Without that control, yah mahn.
Hi Bruce W,
I'd simply would use conditioner not at the hair segment close to the scalp, but on the part of the hair that is a bit further down. I can't imagine that that would interfere with the sleep study. If hair starts to go into dreads, you can untangle with a bit of anti-frizz lotion (dimethicone/cyclomethicone) - you might need no stylist. - Hope that helps.
By the way, I like it when people who are bald on the top have the courage to grow their hair out in the back and on the sides - that looks really cool. William Shakespeare should have taken you as an example and grown his hair quite a bit longer!
Good luck, and best wishes,
Hans-Uwe
Thought of that. I'll be asking about it before the next nights in the lab.
Naturally, as an American I have a fondness for Ben Franklin. I've made it my life's work to collect as many of the government-issued portraits of him as I can acquire.
Ben Franklin is cool! By the way, currently, certain multi-government issued depictions of baroque architecture are worth about 20% more ;-)
Aren't we all into certain baroque hair styles ;-)
In any case, good luck with your collection!
Hans-Uwe
Ok I have to ask. Unless you're sufuring with Sleep Apnea or
something similar why are subjecting yourself to this?
As someone who has SA and has been through a few of these why
would you even want to unless you had SA or something similar?
Nope. Not apnea. In fact, these first nights in the lab are to screen out apnea, Restless Leg Syndrome and other common and easily treatable causes of insomnia. I know I don't have those. And over 20 years, I've tried everything else, OTC, prescription and alternative.
It'll be two weeks or so before the PSG test are "scored" and correlated with the diaries and the data from the physical activity monitor I had to wear for three weeks.
