What happened to my hair?

This morning Van wasn’t able to get out of bed so our five year old fed him breakfast in bed and then I went to take him his pills and looked at his pillow and guess what I saw? Hair strands all over! I started getting so excited and had him come downstairs so I could start shaving his head. Once we were done, Josh said he would like a hair cut but he wanted just a little bit of hair left on his head. Once we were done with him, Grandpa Heder said, I never lost my hair when I had cancer so I’ll be a part of the team. We took a three generation picture of bald, bonding men.

Three Generations

Van, Josh, and Walt Heder

Van used to teach at Cyprus Seminary for three years and his entire faculty came to visit him today--Barbara Morgan, Rory Bigalow, Sean Anguiano, and Clint Udy. It was a wonderful time for him to be with them. This is what they told him. “There are two things about Van that are always consistent. He had good looking hair and wore male hosiery (designer dress socks).” And today he has neither hair nor male hosiery, so you know that Van has hit rock bottom when he doesn’t have either one. It really is different to see my husband in anything but a suit and tie. People always teased him because he would get caught washing his car in his suit, but without his jacket and wearing an apron. I miss those days.

Cyprus Seminary Faculty