Sometimes there is nothing left to do but laugh.



The story so far...



Hair falling out

= sadness

= search for solution



Enter minoxidil

= tiny hairs on head

but more hair on face... sigh



More hair falling out

= more sadness

= more searching for solution



Enter Toppik

= some camouflage



But.....BUT...



solution 1 + 2

= Tiny but mighty beard/sideburn/ freaky… Continue

So did I find a wig?

Unfortunately not. Nothing was exactly right.



So what did I find?

Unbelievable peace of mind. The road ahead is long and I'm so far away from being where I want to be but today I felt I turned my attention to the right road.

The wrong road is where I am currently, driving full speed, it is where I feel ashamed about the hair loss, where I feel like it is all my fault somehow, like I did something wrong. That I will somehow be judged as less than… Continue

Faking it till I make it.



That is my way out of this depressive I find myself wallowing in. I have been inspired by any on this site but most recently by Mish you is optimism personified. I want a piece of cake she is eating. A large slice of that cake :)



I am sick to death of letting 200 hundered bit of dead keratin wafting around me rule my day. I am more than my hair, I have so much to give this world, but if I let the hair be the focus then I will fail. I am going to… Continue

So I am having a bad, bad day of shedding related angst today. Stress. The irony of it is that my hair loss is both contributing to and is exacerbated by stress. Of all the rotten luck. Make it go away please.

This site though has been a god send. Particularly in my current state of gloominess, I am surrounded by a buch of extremely fair maidens who instead of perching on rocks mournfully waiting for their knight errant to come and slay their dragons for them, they went ahead and did it… Continue