All you can do is be there for him and support him through this. I have breast cancer and had my first chemo 10 days ago, so I am about to go through this myself. Being a woman I am devastated by the fact that I will lose my hair and I know it will be a very emotional time for me and my husband, who I know will help me through it.

Best wishes x

hi tiggywinkle, have left you a message on your other post page headed    new to forum,  i hope your ok, and welcome......cococat

All you can do is be there to support him hair does grow back. Went I started to lose mine I decided to shave it as there was so little control I had during chemo I felt that at least this was something I could and shopping for scarves bandanas and hats was more fun than watching it come out when it decided. 

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Thank you for all your supportive comments, and so sorry for the delay in acknowledging them - the last week or so has been quite eventful.  Since my post my husband has indeed taken an element of control and shaved off all his remaining hair and is now completely bald.  We have shopped for hats and have found some that he likes and I have also started wearing one myself so that he might feel less self-conscious (neither of us are usually hat wearers).  I keep telling him that his hair is only a dressing and that it's what's inside that counts, and that it will grow back etc. unfortunately, though he has become quite down about it all.  Aside from this, last week he started to have a problem with pain and breathing and had to be scanned for a suspect blood clot which turned out to be fluid in his lung, a slight infection and some thickening of the lung wall. We were also told that the tumours in his lung have increased in size, despite his chemo. For the last week he has been unable to work, mainly due to the effect of strong pain killers and we are totally in the dark about what might happen next, all of which has had a strong negative effect of him as I think he is losing confidence in any treatment and in the people who are treating him.  I'm now reading anything I can find regarding complementary therapy, particularly relating to diet and we have cut out all processed and red meats, all refined sugar products, refined flour products, alcohol and limiting dairy intake.  Eating organic chicken and fish, loads of fruit and vegetables and taking supplements of vitamin C, turmeric and flaxseed oil.  Also drinking lots of green tea.  Not sure if any of this will do any good, but just feel like it's giving us some control. Just need something now to lift our spirits a bit.....