First hijab day
Background: I'm Christian, Anglican to be precise, had brain surgery for epilepsy that removed my right temporal lobe and half the limbic system about three years ago, and in process had three plates put in my head.
My plates get COLD during the winter and the screws contract. It's painful. Lately I've been finding that any amount of cold air on my head is bad. The last couple of years I'd been wearing hats, but last year I had long hair and the year before that was the year I had my head cut open, so it doesn't really count in finding out "what works and doesn't work". I'd been doing some thinking and realized that a hijab style wrap would actually cover all the spots where the plates were better than hats did, because they'd cover farther the side of my face and go over the whole scar that goes to the bottom of my ear and get all the plates warm, not just the ones on top of my head. So today I did it. I put on one of the underscraves I got from goatinamoat's postings, and figured out a way to wrap a shawl I'd gotten from Goodwill that matched what I was wearing into something that looked like a hijab.
I think it worked pretty well once I figured out some of what I wanted, but when I was indoors I fussed with it alot because I was either too warm or too cold (we were by a door at a restaurant), I think for now I may do caps with a scarf folded to be a hood. Mostly so the cap can stay on and get MOST of the screws covered but when I go out it'd be easy to flip up the hood part. I'm hoping to get used to it enough to be able to just wear it all the time, but baby steps.
*deep thoughts* One thing that my disability has given me is my modesty. I would have never had the nerve to switch to skirts only or think about head covering if it hadn't been for my epilepsy and surgery. I'm not going to say I'M HAPPY to have seizures and anxiety and all my neurological fun, but it also led me to a point of modest dressing and it gave me my body back. */deep thoughts*
My plates get COLD during the winter and the screws contract. It's painful. Lately I've been finding that any amount of cold air on my head is bad. The last couple of years I'd been wearing hats, but last year I had long hair and the year before that was the year I had my head cut open, so it doesn't really count in finding out "what works and doesn't work". I'd been doing some thinking and realized that a hijab style wrap would actually cover all the spots where the plates were better than hats did, because they'd cover farther the side of my face and go over the whole scar that goes to the bottom of my ear and get all the plates warm, not just the ones on top of my head. So today I did it. I put on one of the underscraves I got from goatinamoat's postings, and figured out a way to wrap a shawl I'd gotten from Goodwill that matched what I was wearing into something that looked like a hijab.
I think it worked pretty well once I figured out some of what I wanted, but when I was indoors I fussed with it alot because I was either too warm or too cold (we were by a door at a restaurant), I think for now I may do caps with a scarf folded to be a hood. Mostly so the cap can stay on and get MOST of the screws covered but when I go out it'd be easy to flip up the hood part. I'm hoping to get used to it enough to be able to just wear it all the time, but baby steps.
*deep thoughts* One thing that my disability has given me is my modesty. I would have never had the nerve to switch to skirts only or think about head covering if it hadn't been for my epilepsy and surgery. I'm not going to say I'M HAPPY to have seizures and anxiety and all my neurological fun, but it also led me to a point of modest dressing and it gave me my body back. */deep thoughts*