I am really frustrated right now! I was almost finished with this post, when something happened and it all disappeared! I don't remember all I wrote, so there's no way I can re-create the whole thing!! I was pouring my heart out, telling you all how it began, and how it's getting better now. Telling all about the recognizability I have because of wearing my hats, but it's all gone. AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!
Thinking about it, that may have been the Goddess's way of telling me I shouldn't write what I was writing... Oh well.
I have Alpoecia. I'm dealing with it. My hair is coming back, slowly. My eyebrows and eyelashes are back already. The hair I lost on my legs can stay gone, as far as I'm concerned! And the rest of it can join what's already gone! The hair on my arms is still gone too. Sometimes I look and see a few fine hairs growing there.
I have friends who have never seen me with hair! That's gonna be wierd when it grows back! Even my drivers license has a picture of me wearing one of my favorite scarves.
I need to mention how much I admire the women I've seen that can go without a hat or scarf. I can't. I am not that brave. I do have some hair growing, but it's white, and very sparse. So I shave my head about one a month. And when I'm laying out in the sun, I will take off my hat, or roll it back so my forehead and my ears get some color. So far, it's working, and I haven't gotten sunburned. But then I don't burn. My husband tells people I get a tan walking under a lamp....
But now it's getting late, and I'm tired. Until next time, buh-bye.
I love you the way you are- hair or no hair. It's amazing how physical characteristics become such defining factors of who we are to ourselves. With hair or without, you will always be the same wonderful person to me. It's sometimes easier for those on the outside to recognize and acknowledge this than it is for us as individuals.
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