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A word of advice from experience
Hello. I'm new on this site. It's great. I would like to give a bit of advice, from experience. My insurance company will give $300 towards a new wig every year, which will pay for a good human hair wig on ebay. I made the mistake of going to my family doctor, a woman. She seemed to be pleased that I, an attractive woman, needed a wig. Like a smirk. Then last year the insurance company called her office and had to talk to their receptionist for approval. Does the whole world have to know? This year I'm going to a doctor out of town and taking care of this. Then it will blow over at the office of our family doctor. We live in a small town. You have to protect yourself. You can't trust everyone! And people can be unkind. My daughter-in-law can be very hateful and has announced that I wear a wig, which has gotten all the way from her state to relatives in my state! I ignore it all. To be honest, I look good in my wig and, like someone on another discussion mentioned, if you don't make a big deal out of it, they won't either. Only once did someone ask if I wear a wig - I'd gotten a much longer one. And if a certain relative asks if I wear one - I'm going to tell her that only two people have asked me that question and they were both hillbillies - and she's one of them! I don't understand how some people on this site get a wig and then go out and tell everyone they're wearing a wig. That's insane. I'm ranting to a thousand strangers, but I know you all understand.
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Permalink Reply by Lexi on
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Interesting post. Somehow I seem to think that I have to announce to people, or wear a sign, that says, "yes, it is a wig" ..esp if I see the same people when I wear my own straggly hair and then don a wig. I just feel so self conscience. I wish it were not that way! By the way, what kind of wigs do you wear? Which styles? So, you are comfortable wearing wigs. That is great for you. I imagine they are HH being that insurance pays for some of it. Lucky you. I wish I could develop the care free attitude and not give a crap what people in the world are thinking, or what I perceive them to be thinking. Maybe I just feel that way, and "assume" they are wondering. Maybe they could care less about me and what I have on my head or don't have on my head!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Angie P on
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Well, first of all, I believe HIPAA is supposed to protect you from the sharing of your information. So, if anyone in that doctor's office was inappropriate, they need to be reprimanded.
Second, the daughter-in-law would have to kick rocks until she learned how to act. Negative, hateful people have no place in your world. Banish them until they know how to act right.
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Permalink Reply by Karen Smith on
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I am sorry people feel the need to gossip about this, which is what this sounds like. My daughter has had people that know about the alopecia ask her if she has a wig on because it looks so real. I am an open book sort of person so I have told people that know us about her condition. She has not been treated differently and it is sort of a relief to her once people know. We don't want to share it with perfect strangers. Angie is right about the HIPPA rules boy could they be in trouble if you filed a complaint.
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Not "hillbillies"...just ignorant people. They are everywhere. And people who are hurtful ...I think they ARE miserable themselves, and just want company. So if they can make someone in the world feel bad...they have done their job, and then are happied for it. So sad. It would be so nice if people could just live and let live...mind their own business, do what makes THEM happy, and not worry about other people. Let everyone do their own thing, whatever it may be. As long as no one is hurting themselves or others, just let people be. What happened to the phrase, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything? My mom always used to say...BE NICE. I used to snicker at that. Nothing to snicker about. If everyone followed that advice, what a wonderful world it truly would be. Being nice to everyone. Allowing people to be different in their own way, for whatever reason, and just let them be. They aren't hurting you or anyone else...so why make fun or make them feel bad or self conscious. Why try to be hurtful and hateful? Just BE NICE
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