My dad recently got his kidney transplant so suffice to say I've been incredibly busy..........
But not busy enough to not write about hats again.
Since the transplant I have gone nearly 3 full weeks of wearing a hat. I haven't once styled my hair. I've even forgotten what hair product is and what it's used for. Every day, I wake up, shower, put on clothes and put on a hat. My biggest fashion decision used to be "which black shirt to wear" but now I find I've added another complex decision to my daily fashion choices. Now it's "which hat do I wear?" This might seem stupid to you but it's been a real struggle for me. I currently have 4 hats in my daily rotation. Four! I have a 25% chance of being happy with my daily hat-related decision. Do I wear my plain black hat? (Most popular choice lately) Or do I go with one of my Green Bay Packers hats, and if so the black one or the green one? (Depends on the day) Or finally do I go with my black University of Utah hat? I have one more hat in the mix but I call that one "the special teams" hat. It's a black hat that's stained with sun and sweat. It only comes off the bench for a few things. 1. The gym. 2. Manual labor. 3. Fishing. So it's not really a hard decision to know when to use it. I don't want to ruin the good ones with my sweat. Special teams hat knows its place. It's not a social hat.
But now I've come to worry about the well-being of my hair. It's now perpetually flat and bowl-shaped. I don't know much about hair but I'm almost certain that my hair is adapting to my hat marathon. It's growing in ways that are conducive to hat-wearing. It is quite possibly growing to accommodate my hats. It's not spilling out the sides. Rather it's just growing in a sphere-like way to fit the mold of a hat. Do I have to worry? What happens when I have to reappear in normal society again? Will my hair only be capable of being an oblong pseudo-afro? I can't go to work in a hat and scrubs. I actually have to style my hair for work to maintain the facade of professionalism. My hair won' t know what to do with being exposed to the environment for hours on end. Sure, I can try to style it, but it will resist and beg for a cover. Maybe I can start wearing surgical caps at work? Or I can just have the personality of jaded scientist and wipe it out. Shave my head and start anew. Let the this new crop of hair come into its own.
Do you see what I'm dealing with here? The struggle is real.
