Telogen Effluvium

Anonymous writes in a comment below:
The phenomenon [of hair loss] is called telogen effluvium, which i think is a cool sounding thing. During stress, the hair stops growing and stops falling out, about 2-6 months after a stressor, all of the hair that should have fallen out, falls out all at once.

Thanks, anonymous. Fascinating! For what it's worth, Zora's hair began to fall out at a normal rate about 4 months after her surgery. The same healthy amount of hair she would lose before she got sick last October.

(And I am a very good judge of this matter as I get to inspect the clump of hair that rises up from the bathtub-drain strainer every time I take a bath. And to think she thinks I'm just splashing around with my toy boat in the bathtub.)