Actress Gala Coogan published a brave post on her Facebook page, in which she shared about her battle with brain cancer.
In her words, she described the difficulty she had when she had to part with her hair following chemotherapy and radiation: “During the radiation and chemo I underwent, most of my hair fell out. Everything during the procedure I was in was very traumatic for me and happened in my experience in a jumbled and undefined mixture of time.
“I believe that over time I will share more details about the struggle I had to go through. But one bright day, in about an hour, most of the hair fell out of my head. I really fell apart, it was much harder than the discovery of the cancer itself, to be bald, to say goodbye in seconds to my entire perception of my external identity, explained me to pieces
“I had a significant proportion and connected to reality,” Gala continues, “I had a huge tumor removed from my brain and I remained alive in God unscathed, a visible and absolutely not obvious miracle and nothing not obvious, nothing. And it’s just hair, and it’s just the shell, and the main thing is the insides, etc. But I couldn’t stop crying and being shocked every time I looked in the mirror, every time I got out of bed to move my hair from side to side and I felt bald and so repulsive and unfeminine. I kept hearing myself in the background – talk to you nicely.
“But in practice I was angry and hated this change that was imposed on me, so it takes me time to digest and heal the shocking experience I went through since the discovery of the tumor and the whole procedure will be restored after the surgery, I bought a wig and with it I am sometimes comfortable, but thank God I finished the medical procedure and after treatment and an in-depth journey Immensely, after 9 months I come back in a new, deeper and more complex character, more inclusive mainly of myself and those around me. I light a candle and give thanks for the miracles and wonders within me and from me”
Gala concluded her words: “Truly loving ourselves without judgment, in any situation, is the heart of healing for any physical and mental problem. And this is the most difficult thing to maintain, especially when we are in great darkness, to love myself even in places that I am ashamed of or try to repress.”