It is great that you are taking it one day at a time. As far as pointers go, there are a lot of them in my book (you can find out more on my page or go to Amazon.com and look up "If Your Hair Falls Out, Keep Dancing!" It's funny -- I've had AU for so long I'm not sure I would know what to do with my own hair if it grew back. There are so many new products -- and I'd have to learn how to do blowouts and...! Yikes!

Hello and welcome, Heather!
How are you today? I have AU, too.
Leslie Ann

Welcome Heather, glad you found us here. Your Kids are adorable! I have to say I love,love love your wedding photos, and your wig! If you don't mind sharing where you got it, it looks just like my real hair did. I'm still holding on to about a third of it now, I've had AA for ten years also, I have the ophiasis pattern, and seem to be not regrowing anymore, and losing in spots all over now. I'm looking for a wig that will look like yours. You look fantasitc. So glad your here.

Welcome to AW! I was looking at the new photos posted, and the Packers shirt caught my eye. Your kids are so adorable. I just wanted to say that you are not alone, and this is a great website.

Hello Heather - Glad to have you in the Wisconsin group. Alopecia may not be life-threatening but it can leave us feeling like a shell, and I'm not sure that we ever win the war. Fortunately, there are small battle victories which keep us fighting. Good friends and family support are essential to our mental health; but, when aren't they?:) So, we try not to take them for granted and extend our gratitude for their loving care that gives us the courage to accept our unique image. There's a learning curve to living with the disease with plateaus along the way. Once we reach a certain level of acceptance, we become better than before. This is an incredible group of people who have made great strides at all levels with some extraordinary leaps of faith that life will be what they make it, and that's exactly when they start to soar. Great accomplishments often develop during some of the most difficult times of our lives. Accepting any change in life is not easy but we do acquire strength that we didn't have before and that makes us more confident and capable of facing many of life's other challenges down the road. ((Hugs)) Susan