So, I have written before about the fact that my hair is curly now that I’m in my 40s and my Dad was the one in my family who had curly hair. A couple of my brothers have curls and one has waves. I had straight hair. When I was a kid, what I wouldn’t give for curly hair!!!
My Dad did not have very much hair on his the top of head but my Mom disagrees. He had a really big forehead. He didn’t have hair on the top of his head but he grew a ponytail. My Mom did not like it but he did it anyway!
I have crystal clear memories of my Dad getting ready to go somewhere and he would comb his hair before he put it in a ponytail holder. As his ponytail got a little bit longer, the curls would knot up, and I would watch him yank the comb through his hair. I always thought that it looked painful! I remember that it sounded painful!
I am not sure how long after my Dad died, but my Mom brought me the comb that he used to use. I had already cut my hair so I could use combs instead of brushes. She actually brought two combs to my second apartment. I remember that I cried when she brought them to me and I have been using them ever since!
I missed my haircut last month because my power chair needed to be serviced and it’s currently at phase 3 of 6 in the process of when I can take it in to actually get fixed. I am going to have a two month growth before I get my haircut next week. My hairstylist cut my hair short so as it would not curl. She asked if my Mo would blow dry it or if I would have product in my hair and told her that I wouldn’t do that, so she just said that we have to go short, and I agreed.
I remember reading somewhere in a magazine when I was a teenager that hair follicles are different depending on your type of hair. Straight hair follicles are different than curly hair follicles and both of those are different from wavy hair follicles. I’m experiencing a shift in the follicles I think because it feels weird!
So, let’s go to this morning when I was combing my hair with my Dad‘s comb. My hair is getting longer, and it is starting to curl. I do not move when I sleep, so I stay on my back all night and my Tempur-pedic bed. Sometimes, the back of my hair gets knotty now.
This morning, because it is longer and a bit curly, I was running the comb through my hair and it knotted in the back. I stopped pulling the comb through my hair and thought for a moment about my Dad just yanking it through the knots. I paused and gritted my teeth, and just yanked it through my hair! Yes, it hurt A LOT just like I suspected when I was a kid! But I can’t help think are using the same damn comb! This is what it looks like, it was issued by the hospital many years ago and my Dad didn’t want to have to pay for a comb so he didn’t and I guess now I don’t either:
it did bring pause to me to think that we are using the same d*mn comb!